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Corners

Artist Blog by Jürgen Sobkowiak

The interior of a room influences people's lives. Research has shown that it is a basic human need to be able to see further than the next corner. Only then can man escape a dangerous situation. The corner of the room plays an important role in the composition Treibgut: like stranded flotsam, the protagonist sits in the corner of a run-down garden shed. It is broad daylight and the improvised dwelling is very primitive this time. The viewer is repeatedly confronted with the concepts of loneliness and withdrawal. I am a great admirer of the work of Francesca Woodman (1958-1981). In her photographic works, she is predominantly concerned with her body and how it relates to the space around her.

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Jürgen Sobkowiak

I was born in 1970 in Würselen near Aachen and came to the photographic art late in life due to drastic life events. I was interested in art from a young age and was intensively involved in drawing, photography, and literature. At the end of the nineties, I taught myself photography through self-study, and in the following years, I concretized my own artistic language. From then on, I have worked on long-term photographic series that I develop over a longer period of time.