Schwall combines photography, installation and language. In an arrangement of 45 photographically fixed terms, the work invites to reflect on fragments of information. 

 

By isolating and recombining the terms, Schwall's surface inspires to create new meanings. The work addresses the power of framing: it reveals how semantics decay, emerge and shift through context. By deconstructing original references and exposing double meanings, it enables new associations and new framings.

 

Schwall shows observations from analogue space that seem to have fallen out of time. The aesthetics oscillate between supposedly promotional presentation and degradation, a fracture that reveals the fragility of contemporary narratives. Schwall therefore refers to the erosion of promises and the fluctuation of desires. The work provides a space in which diagnosis of the past, projection into the future and self-positioning overlap, a place that rather negotiates than asserts.