Escapegoat - the Ascent in Exile (2024) Photography by Friedrich Ursprung

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  • This work is an "Open Edition" Photography, Giclée Print / Digital Print
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Escapegoat - The Ascent in Exile. The figure's stance—raw, unadorned, yet deliberate—suggests vulnerability intertwined with quiet defiance, evoking themes of sacrifice, blame, and liberation. But with a twist: the “escape” signifies agency, a reclaiming of the self through art. In a liminal space that blurs the boundary between shelter and stage, [...]
Escapegoat - The Ascent in Exile

The figure's stance—raw, unadorned, yet deliberate—suggests vulnerability intertwined with quiet defiance, evoking themes of sacrifice, blame, and liberation. But with a twist: the “escape” signifies agency, a reclaiming of the self through art.
In a liminal space that blurs the boundary between shelter and stage, this body becomes a symbol of catharsis: a vessel through which societal burdens are shed. The “Escapegoat” represents the artist as both the sacrificial figure and the liberated subject, escaping imposed roles while bearing the weight of shared human impulses and taboos. By embracing the gaze, the figure offers a paradox: culpability as power, isolation as reclamation.

The Adamic figure embodies an archetype—defiance, rebellion, and consequence. The Biblical theme of banishment from paradise speaks to humanity’s eternal struggle with sin, shame, and self-awareness.
In this image, the figure stands outside the sacred—not illuminated by divine judgment but by the primal light of self-reclamation. No longer a symbol of shame, it instead becomes an emblem of liberation—a reversal of Edenic exile where the fallen refuse to hide. The shelter of wood and branches echoes the duality of salvation and burden: a humble sanctum recalling both the Tree of Knowledge and the cross, symbols of sacrifice, transformation, and redemption.

While the ancient notion of the scapegoat describes a creature ritually burdened with communal sin and cast into the wilderness, the "Escapegoat" does not wander in shame. Instead, this figure becomes a conscious exile, one who has chosen to shed societal guilt.
This merging of Biblical and personal mythology transforms the landscape into both sanctuary and stage—a reclaimed Eden where the self stands resolute in its naked truth, defying banishment through unapologetic presence.

This work reimagines Biblical exile as a fall that liberates rather than condemns: banished, but becoming.

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EdenExileBanishmentBurdenShame

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Friedrich Ursprung is a professionnal photographer and digital artist. He defines himself as a free-spirited iconoclast. His work is eclectic from abstract to explicit, about the age of self-referential hedonism. [...]

Friedrich Ursprung is a professionnal photographer and digital artist. He defines himself as a free-spirited iconoclast.

His work is eclectic from abstract to explicit, about the age of self-referential hedonism. He multiplies the images of himself to create a new one

Friedrich Ursprung is a selfie-thaught photographer. He studied method acting in San Francisco and storytelling in L.A.

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