Berg- und Talfahrt (engl.: Peaks and Valleys)

by Marc Allgaier

A Ride Through Peaks and Valleys is a spatial collage that treats landscape as a model of unstable reality. Built from corrugated cardboard and black-and-white photographic fragments, it forms a provisional topography: ridges and cuts that read as mountain range, infrastructure, or diagram, depending on where you stand. I am interested in how images organise what we call reality – through framing, sequencing, and omission rather than illusionistic depth. The accompanying collages extend this investigation on the flat surface. They assemble fragments of terrain and architecture into dense visual arguments that resist a single narrative. Seen together, installation and collages propose landscape not as scenery, but as a thinking space: a way to rehearse transitions, overlaps, and breaks in the worlds we inhabit and construct.