The Fiction of Science

This book is a collection of work by the Berlin-based photographer Frank Hülsbömer, whose dynamic depictions of immobile objects exist at the intersection of aesthetic abstraction and conceptual content. Whether sketchily visualized thoughts or meticulously staged motifs, the featured series evolve from the interplay of installations, colours, clusters and geometrical compositions and often resemble computer renderings. Hülsbömer examines light, anatomical refractions and the construction of space and surface: his photographs indicate the recent rediscovery of abstraction and geometrical work in contemporary art. The accompanying texts illuminate the theoretical background and artistic approach of a photographic aesthetic that, despite its minimalistic strength and quasi-scientific precision, shines with exceptional depth and creates an outstanding poetic visuality.