HEINER BEISERT
Love Me For Less
26 April 2022 - 02 May 2022
26 April 2022 - 02 May 2022
Love Me For Less is my most insightful contribution of a visual abstraction to the
narrative of the unbearable weight of being human in the anthropocene. In what I
believe to be an extensive, topographic study of the tactile, I want to present a
distinctive unnerving experience. In multifaceted arrays of structure and light, I
compose for the surreal and yet mundane — opting for disorientation, mimicking
an out-of-body experience (OBE). The so-called OBE being the phenomenon that
has led me onto the path of creating this body of work over the course of the last
two years in Rostock, Germany.
In a sterile, almost clinical fashion, I, as always, worked entirely film-based,
utilizing my large-format view camera for the most part. I concentrated on the
manifestation of abstract interactions between humans and their respective
environments to an extent that tries to emphasize the strict inner lining within
what makes up the human mind with all its boundaries — only to surpass said
boundaries in the hereby body of work presented. A beauty that is quickly
undercut, disturbed by a cast of characters who seem unwilling or unable to play
along.
The question that guided me, driven by my interest in the phenomena of
out-of-body experiences, has always been steady throughout my process: What
really lies beneath our own consciousness and the structural array of chaos
hidden within? With Love Me For Less I laid the foundation for the work
following it, to further strengthen my studies of resetting narratives inherited from
generations unknown. Love Me For Less is therefore not so much about
escapism but the fictional consensus of blending societies together by the strict
differentiation of what is physical matter and what is not









