Affordable housing (2023) Photography by René Roeser

For ten years, contemporary photographer René Roeser has been creating and developing his surrealist works with great authenticity. With a strong sense of authenticity, he exhibits nationwide and internationally, and was selected for the 2020 edition of the 100 Hundredize Annual Book Best Selected. He is also represented by the Agora gallery in New York.

René Roeser's photographs appear at first glance as combinations of buildings, people and everyday objects, that is to say of everyday life; yet, at second glance, this apparent familiarity is taken to absurdity.

Influenced by surrealist painters, he uses his camera to place small objects (such as an hourglass, or metal objects such as snowballs) in natural space to create a new and unusual situation.

These conceptual photographs appear as surprising and clever constellations, where one reacts first with a smile, then by trying to elucidate the meaning of the objects represented.

Although Roeser's subjects and interventions seem minimal and paradoxical, like stories with no beginning or end, they focus on finding a balance between life and death and at the same time on their realistic status and generate the possibility of a new reality.
This illusion ultimately aims to confront the viewer's expectation, reason and objectivity...

• Nationality: LUXEMBOURG
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists, Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Luxembourgish Artists Artists presented by a gallery