Philipp Keel’s pictures are striking for their beauty, tension and humour. They are informed as much by chance as by perfection. Chance provides the motifs in an impassioned oeuvre that shows an almost guileful tendency towards abstraction.
The photographs capture memories and moments that run the gamut between light and dark, movement and stasis, reflection and refraction. They locate feelings and lend them colour; they may sparkle with life or take a melancholy turn; they may be ironic and their subject matter selected with an eye for the absurd.