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Suðurland #9 – Islandiya, 2020
Suðurland nº10 – Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
Suðurland nº22 – Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
Vesturland nº3 – Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
Vesturland nº4 – Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
Vesturland nº8 – Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
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Vesturland nº22– Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
Vesturland nº11– Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
Vesturland nº19 – Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020
Vesturland nº14 – Islandiya, Insel der Zeit, 2020

11Silent path nº1 (Asperity – Triptych), 2015

Acrylic- and oil 
paint over photograph mounted on 3 wood panels
172 x 300 cm

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Insel der Zeit
Islandiya – Suðurland and Vesturland

Jörg Bräuer has travelled the world, drawn by places that are remote and less altered by humans. He seeks out landscapes that reveal a special type of beauty that relates to impermanence, emptiness and silence. In 2016, he visited Iceland, where the following photographic series was made. When photographing these isolated landscapes, it’s important for Bräuer to observe, listen, connect to the place in silence before taking any pictures, a process that is almost meditational. About his attraction to islands Bräuer explains, “I like the idea of travelling in time when I visit an island. I find islands maintain time differently and each island develops a particular rhythm, which adds to its character, and is mostly very different to what happens to the rest of the country it belongs to. Also, going to an island is about accepting limitations. These limits force me to look closer, to sense more and to become more creative inside the given limits — on the islands, less becomes more.”

Text by Blaire Dessent, TLmag#31, Islands of Creation.”

2016-2020
Archival pigment print on cotton paper, signed and dated, oak wood frame, 110 x 175 cm and 50 x 70 cm,

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