Pieces of the sky

Miklos Gaál

Miklos Gaál (born 1974) is one of Finland’s most important contemporary photographers. His unconventional work has been pushing the limits of photography for many years. The gallery WAGNER+PARTNER also presents videos and a series of silkscreen prints.
Gaál’s works are based on precise observations of ephemeral everyday phenomena, the coincidental interplay of things juxtaposed in a seemingly logical manner. With his openness and sense of continuous transformation, he explores the representational and formal qualities of the photographic image. He thus transposes a given reality into a kind of artificiality that takes on multiple levels of meaning.
Gaál’s focus is on the way the depicted subjects converge with our ideas about them. What is actually being observed is not the subjects themselves, but commonplace scenes that stand for what is ‘real’ and that we take for granted. He introduces a relativity to our experience that allows us to compare actual reality with what we perceive as real.