Boris Eldagsen's night photography explores the limits of depiction. Rather than exploring stories, a place or a person, his work hijacks and transforms the external reality, to paint a reality beyond time and space: that of the unconscious.Not unlike Goethe's Faust, Eldagsen pursues “whatever holds the world together in its inmost folds”to create pictures that are inaccessible to the rational mind, compelling the viewer to turn to their own memories and feelings. Thus he calls his photographs POEMS.



Working in this paradoxical way, Eldagsen can hardly be attributed to a school of photography. Without excessive materials or digital effects, he combines the techniques of street and staged photography to create images that sit between painting, film and theatre. Transferring this quality to the presentation of his work, he creates site-specific installations using a variety of formats from wallpaper to video to create an experience in which reality becomes fluid and visitors can walk through images into an inner space.



Boris Eldagsen studied philosophy and visual arts in Mainz, Cologne, Prague and Hyderabad, including a Roger Ballen master class.



His photomedia has shown internationally in institutions and festivals including: Fridericianum Kassel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Australian Centre of Photography Sydney, Encontros da Imagem Braga, Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, MAK Vienna, Edinburgh Art Festival, and Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Since 2014, Eldagsen is a member of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie.



www.eldagsen.com




Boris Eldagsen's work is currently shown in:




FORMAT Festival, Derby

March 13 – April 12, 2015



"FORMAT Festival" was established in 2004 and is one of the UK's leading international contemporary festivals of photography and related media. Boris Eldagsen received the Photography Show Award 2015 and shows a site-specific installation.



www.formatfestival.com




Kommunale Galerie & PhotoWerkBerlin, Berlin

February 6 – May 2, 2015



Kommunale Galerie and PhotoWerkBerlin present Boris Eldagsen's first german solo show "how to disappear completely: THE POEMS" as a site-specific window and room installation. Using wallpaper, photographs and video, Eldagsen creates an experience in which reality becomes fluid and visitors can walk through images into an inner space.



www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de




Galerie Le Petit Espace, Paris

March 18 – May 10, 2015



A further site-specific installation of "how to disappear completely: THE POEMS" is presented by Galerie Le Petit Espace, Paris.



www.lepetitespace.com