“In an age where the self is increasingly fragmented, where identity dissolves into the static of algorithmic precision, „Nachtschatten Gestalten“ emerges as a visual meditation on human estrangement. The large-format drawings present figures that hover between presence and absence—sleepwalking through the fabric of existence, their identities eroded by the machinery of modernity. Shadows of their former selves, they drift in a perpetual state of detachment, together yet alone, present yet ungraspable…
…this is the futile search for identity in a landscape where identity itself is a remnant, where humanity, once rich in nuance, is subsumed by a cold arithmetic of efficiency.”
— Marcus Schaefer
Featuring large format drawings created between 2020-2023
17 × 25 cm
64 pages
Limited edition of 50 copies
Designed & published by Marcus Schaefer Atelier
[Printed on 55gsm improved newspaper]
“In an age where the self is increasingly fragmented, where identity dissolves into the static of algorithmic precision, „Nachtschatten Gestalten“ emerges as a visual meditation on human estrangement. The large-format drawings present figures that hover between presence and absence—sleepwalking through the fabric of existence, their identities eroded by the machinery of modernity. Shadows of their former selves, they drift in a perpetual state of detachment, together yet alone, present yet ungraspable…
…this is the futile search for identity in a landscape where identity itself is a remnant, where humanity, once rich in nuance, is subsumed by a cold arithmetic of efficiency.”
— Marcus Schaefer
Featuring large format drawings created between 2020-2023
17 × 25 cm
64 pages
Limited edition of 50 copies
Designed & published by Marcus Schaefer Atelier
[Printed on 55gsm improved newspaper]
