Martin Essl, Anaïs Horn
Martin Essl / Anaïs Horn
06/06–02/08/2025
FOTOHOF Gallery
Martin Essl and Anaïs Horn are two Austrian artists who have both independently found a creative home in Paris.
Martin Essl
In »Le Bateau ivre« (The Drunken Ship), Martin Essl refers to Arthur Rimbaud's poem of the same name about human life as a dramatic voyage. In a poetic photo essay, Essl sketches the outlines of a city in transition and composes abstract and sometimes surreal photographs of the urban Parisian cityscape. Behind his colorful photographs, however, there are often visible traces of the dramas that have afflicted Paris. Essl's sometimes enigmatic views of the city create an unusual image of the French metropolis.
Anaïs Horn
Anaïs Horn's work often moves in the space between narrative and fragment, memory and oblivion. She is showing two installations in which the central tension of her work becomes tangible: the interplay of presence and withdrawal, following traces of what is missing. In »APOUSIA«, countless photographs of wanted ads for missing cats hang in the semi-darkness of the room - fragile remnants of absence, fleeting traces of longing. Horn's latest project »TALK TO ME« extends her ongoing investigation into the ghostly presence of objects and spaces, directly referencing Hervé Guibert's »L'Image fantôme« (1981), which explores the elusive nature of photography - its ability to preserve and deceive, to animate and destroy.
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Stadtgalerie Lehen, Eboran Gallery and FOTOHOF at Stadtwerk jointly invite you to a art walk through the neighborhood!
Always on a Wednesday, under the motto »Seeing Lehen«, free of charge, about once a month, relaxed, with questions and answers, artists, curators and works »up close« and lots of information all around.
Meeting Point: Stadtgalerie Lehen / Inge-Morath-Platz 31 / 5020 Salzburg / Austria
As different as the positions of Martin Essl and Anaïs Horn may appear, they are linked not least by a similarity of means. Both artists embark on a visual and poetic search for traces in private and public, intellectual and concrete spaces. Martin Essl finds enigmas in the urban scenes he visits, while Anaïs Horn explores them in her private cosmos.