Dmitri Obergfell
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- Caroline Kurze
In his practice, Dmitri Obergfell is interested in exploring relationship between materials and ideas to comment on human experience. He is using commercially produced objects as a vernacular because of the viewer’s familiarity to the manufactured objects and relation to the everyday experience.
+ Read MoreThe relationship that people have with objects serves as an access point to the work and a way to relate on a ‘personal’ level. He would like the viewer to have an experience that temporarily removes them from their ego and lets them consider a broader sense of being, a more social or collective experience. Dmitri is inpired by contemporary perspectives and/or approaches to the world we live in and our relation to histories. He says: ‘I spend a good portion of time absorbing information and passively observing what’s around me. I consider my inspiration to be like osmosis. I prefer to keep it undefined as a way to keep my inspiration from becoming formulaic and stale.’
Statues also Die
Infinite Ladder
Together At Last
The Embodiment of Loss and Desire
Here
All images © Dmitri Obergfell
