Diner with Puppet (2018) Photography by René Roeser

For ten years, contemporary photographer René Roeser has been creating and developing his surrealist works with great authenticity. With a keen sense of authenticity, he exhibits throughout the country and abroad, and was selected in the 2020 edition of the 100 Hundredize Annual Book Best Selected. He is also represented by the Agora Gallery in New York.

At first glance, René Roeser's photographs appear as combinations of buildings, people and everyday objects, that is, of everyday life; yet, at second glance, this apparent familiarity is pushed to the absurd.

Influenced by surrealist painters, he uses his camera to place small objects (such as an hourglass, or metallic objects such as snowballs) in natural space to create a new and unusual situation.

These conceptual photographs appear as surprising and clever constellations, where one reacts first with a smile, then by trying to elucidate the meaning of the objects represented.

Although Roeser's subjects and interventions seem minimal and paradoxical, like stories without beginning or end, they focus on the search for a balance between life and death and at the same time on their realistic status and generate the possibility of a new reality.
This illusion ultimately aims to confront the viewer's expectation, reason and objectivity...

• Nationality: LUXEMBOURG
• Date of birth : 1954
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Luxembourgish Artists