Janik Bürgin (*1994, Basel, Switzerland) completed his photography studies at the School of Design in Zurich in 2020. He lives and works in Lausen. His recent photographs present aesthetic, sensory situations that are primarily characterized by color, abstract form, and composition. The captured object, the technique, and the title are disassociated. No concrete object can be discerned in these photographs, and the visual information is formed solely on the play between the colors and their arrangement. However, the colorful subjects are based on found plastic pieces. The devastating issue of environmental pollution is obscured and beautified through photography and blurring. A bright image is assembled from waste, which radiates and glows from within. Hence Janik Bürgin skillfully pinpoints environmental challenges through beautiful abstraction.
