Original Sold

Drawing upon the descriptive power of photography, Peter Vahlefeld uses his artistic practice as a tool to examine our perception of reality, especially regarding our relation to cultural productions. His procedures seem to follow the laws of entropy by creating effects of constant transformation and spontaneous change, expending the excess energy of a system to reveal its paradoxes. The underlying aim of these strategies is always the same: to destabilize pre-established codes of perception by sabotaging the very logic of his material and to push the viewer to develop critical ideas when presented with cultural objects whose meaning seems obvious –everything seems to end up in a magazine sooner or later.