Introducing Patrick Weidmann as featured in All over the place! curated by William A. Ewing.
 

 
As a photographer, PATRICK WEIDMANN dangles a spotlight on the ordinary and the occasional extraordinary: shattered car windows, airplane seats, empty restaurant dining rooms, stuffed toys, or the crumpled pages of porn magazines. They are pieces of a larger story that you’ll never know. Weidmann affirms, “I take pictures of fragments and parts. They are just metaphors of what should happen or what should be seen. Even if the subjects are obsessions, I like them to disappear behind the idea of being the objects.”
 
His images are close-ups of groups of things. Whether its shiny chrome car parts, colored-crystal figurines, or the clamouring paparazzi, they all seem to comment on society’s love of consumerism. “My aim is also to activate the collusion between the promises of instant happiness and the dark side of death strategies,” he says.
 
Weidmann describes what he finds most eye-catching when he works. “With no doubt, gloss and brilliance. It’s just the opposite of light. Light should be abstract, coming from nowhere, and going nowhere. Sometimes I look at the world as if it would have never exist before.”
 
—Tami Mnoian