Oskar Schmidt

House of Cards

In his photographic series Centro, Oskar Schmidt (born 1977 in Erlabrunn, lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig) explores the tradition of portraiture and still lifes in modernity. In doing so, he refers to the Eurocentric view of art history by having his models imitate gestures of classical still lifes and portraits of European art. The edition shows a house of cards with precarious stability. Here, Schmidt takes up a banal motif, subjects it to the formal language of classical modernism through digital alienation effects, and relates it to postcolonial discourses.