URS LÜTHI

Urs Lüthi, who holds major international acclaim, is known for his uncanny self-staging photographs and sculptures. He has a rigorous art practice in which he assembles a unique visual language that cannot be categorized by any isms. His artistic practice appears uncompromising and incompliant, including sculptures, photography, body art and happenings, which all in their eclectic manner intend to irritate and fool the viewer. Since his mid-20s, at the end of the 60s, the artist began photographing himself and decided to turn his own person into the protagonist of his creations because all perceptions are bound to subjective experiences. Thus, he not only remains faithful to his investigations on identity, the physical body, emotions, longings, and illusions but also explores the social and ontological side of being in the world.