Sascha Weidner | UNVEILED, the Sydney Project
until April 19, 2012

Australian Centre for Photography



SASCHA WEIDNER
UNVEILED, the Sydney Project
For this project, Sascha Weidner has moved between Sydney´s terrain und subterrain, with images shot over a ten-day period. At the conclusion, Weidner departs, leaving the images to chemically decompose during the six-week exhibition period. The project combines object and installation and encourages visitors to investigate, touch and handle the works laid out in darkroom developing trays.
Reacting in real-time during an intense period of activity »Unveiled, the Sydney Project« combines research, residency and exhibition as an outsider looking in. The need to archive, store and embed a moment via the lens of what may be regarded as 'almost lost' reflects ideas of containment and conclusion. Weidner´s investigations of polarity, memory and the interplay of contrasting locales relating the urban and non-urban, the nocturnal and daytime through the essential life force of water extend beyond the captured moment.
The immediacy of the images, shot in 10 days, embody the transient and time-based undertones of the process as the chemical decomposition of the images (throughout the exhibition period) parallels the artists departure and the fading memory of his presence. This is presented as both installation and intervention through the use of photography and object.
Weidner proposes interaction and re-interpretation of our immediate environment simultaneously from within and out-with the gallery confines whilst acknowledging the alchemy of analogue in a digital age.

The Australian Centre for Photography has commissioned Weidner to create this installation in partnership with the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and the Goethe-Institut. This is his first solo exhibition in Australia.
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Sascha Weidner (lives & works in Belm & Berlin, Germany)

Sascha Weidner is considered as one of the most interesting and successful young photographers. He received the prestigious »Stiftungspreis für Fotokunst« award, one of the most generous for contemporary photography in Europe with a sum of 10,000 euros in 2011.

He studied photography, film, and painting as well as communication design at the Braunschweig University of Art. He was a master student of Doerte Eissfeldt. With the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he worked in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2006. He has been awarded numerous distinctions, including the 2010 Foerderpreis / Kunstpreis Berlin, the NBank photography advancement award, and the first prize in the Polaroid International Photography Award.

In addition to appearing in many publications, his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide at venues including Foam in Amsterdam, Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Openeye Gallery in Liverpool, C/O Berlin, International Photography Festival Knokke-Heist, Tapiès in Barcelona, Museum for Photography in Braunschweig, Samstag Museum in Adelaide, and Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.

Sascha Weidner´s works are represented internationally in the collections of private collectors and public museums.

more information: www.saschaweidner.com