CYCLE: INTROSPECTION
THEME: SELF OBSERVATION
SUBJECT: THE MODEL
CAMERA: VOYEURISTIC INSTRUMENT
Faessler initially operated by means of introspection. Self Observation is the name of one of her cycles of works, created in a context of Conceptualism. Her photographs reflect the artist herself, her body, her skills as a former model. In Self Observation she explores the very moment when sensuality veers into vanity. She leads the camera ad absurdum by focusing on her subjective view as extreme self-(re)cognition. This enables the viewer to perceive the bigger picture, and fragments the image – the object – into a multitude of relative perspectives. From the object's point of view, the subject (Faessler herself) splits up into any number of perceivable objects. It is the artist's way of addressing her own past as an international model. She artfully stages the artificial world of glamour and mass consumption where the model/subject is a mere foil, a projection surface for an anonymous Zeitgeist. Faessler's photography is fresh, original, outside the norm. She groups things that are remote and disparate, creating new insights, opening new avenues, and purposefully arranging the many components of her knowledge about art and ethics. Both as an artist and as a private individual, she responds sensitively to her environment and its condition. She seems to have a keen flair for the gaps in our knowledge, for the lacunae in our systems and in the sense we make of life; for errors, dissonances and inconsistencies that only she appears to notice. Self Observation is the first of Faessler's cycles of works that reveals the broad outlines of her artistic strategy: in order to impose a certain system on the multitude of potential perceptual phenomena, she plays an anarchic game that destroys the unambiguity of the aspect. She torpedoes her own medium, ripping the viewer out of his unquestioned existence. She tickles the viewer out of her visual lethargy, transcending the subject-object difference to a higher level of insight. As in any interplay of quantities and qualities, part of the outcome involves an important constraint that tends to be described as "emergence". In Faessler's work, something new emerges from the act of considering the traditional and the conventional: the subject constructs its own reality at the very moment of visual perception.
THEME: SELF OBSERVATION
SUBJECT: THE MODEL
CAMERA: VOYEURISTIC INSTRUMENT
Faessler initially operated by means of introspection. Self Observation is the name of one of her cycles of works, created in a context of Conceptualism. Her photographs reflect the artist herself, her body, her skills as a former model. In Self Observation she explores the very moment when sensuality veers into vanity. She leads the camera ad absurdum by focusing on her subjective view as extreme self-(re)cognition. This enables the viewer to perceive the bigger picture, and fragments the image – the object – into a multitude of relative perspectives. From the object's point of view, the subject (Faessler herself) splits up into any number of perceivable objects. It is the artist's way of addressing her own past as an international model. She artfully stages the artificial world of glamour and mass consumption where the model/subject is a mere foil, a projection surface for an anonymous Zeitgeist. Faessler's photography is fresh, original, outside the norm. She groups things that are remote and disparate, creating new insights, opening new avenues, and purposefully arranging the many components of her knowledge about art and ethics. Both as an artist and as a private individual, she responds sensitively to her environment and its condition. She seems to have a keen flair for the gaps in our knowledge, for the lacunae in our systems and in the sense we make of life; for errors, dissonances and inconsistencies that only she appears to notice. Self Observation is the first of Faessler's cycles of works that reveals the broad outlines of her artistic strategy: in order to impose a certain system on the multitude of potential perceptual phenomena, she plays an anarchic game that destroys the unambiguity of the aspect. She torpedoes her own medium, ripping the viewer out of his unquestioned existence. She tickles the viewer out of her visual lethargy, transcending the subject-object difference to a higher level of insight. As in any interplay of quantities and qualities, part of the outcome involves an important constraint that tends to be described as "emergence". In Faessler's work, something new emerges from the act of considering the traditional and the conventional: the subject constructs its own reality at the very moment of visual perception.


