Walter Seidl's artistic work deals with the transition of narrative, photography-based structures into proto-filmic scenarios. The ephemeral notions of the subjects' encounters in Seidl's photography allude to stories, which are open to a number of possible interpretations but always derive from the artist's personal relationships. The models in Seidl's photographs are mostly close friends whose lives are taken as the starting point for further reflection. The traditional medium in which Seidl presents his work are slide installations with sound, where real and fictional realms mingle in order to hint at the present conditions of life with its socio-political impacts.
Ursula Maria Probst, Vienna
untitled (Berlin) # 1, # 2 [2005]