robert.wilde.photographie

ABOUT „CONTEMPORARY PORN LOVERS & ARTISTS“

Being able to make photographs at the PornFilmFestival 2017 and 2018 in Berlin was one of the greatest pleasures I’ve ever had as a photographer. It was overwhelming and touching how many different people "took over" porn during the last years to make it their playground and make it a celebration of diversity, human sexuality and of life itself. I can't remember having been in a public atmosphere more filled with respect and love. Thank you for all of that - you beautiful, diverse, encouraging people. Move on to make the world a better place. With love and porn. YOUR porn.

ABOUT "YOU ARE ME AND I AM YOU (YAMAIAY)"

„You are me and I am you (YAMAIAY)“ is a participatory performance, a process and a photographic work at once. I invite people to change their clothes with me and to take a photograph of each of us. Besides the fact that this is great fun: How does that feel? Does it change your facial expression, your gestures, your awareness? YAMAIAY explores what it feels like to slip into the public persona of someone else, it questions ourselves as well as identity itself and it wants to show: We are united in diversity.

ÜBER "WÄHREND.DAHINTER"

Vor Jahren erlebte ich zum ersten Mal eine Theatervorstellung von hinter der Bühne. Das war eines der beeindruckendsten Erlebnisse das ich jemals hatte - und hat für mich nichts vom Zauber des Theaters zerstört. Im Gegenteil: Denn die Magie funktioniert nicht OBWOHL wir wissen, dass es sich um ein (Schau)spiel handelt - sondern genau DESWEGEN! Wäre der Schauspieler vor uns wirklich Richard der III. oder könnte die Zaubererin auf der Bühne wirklich zaubern - wir würden zu Tode erschrecken.

Während.Dahinter entsteht während der Vorstellung hinter der Bühne und zeigt die Akteur*innen kurz bevor sie die Bühne betreten und nachdem sie die Bühne wieder verlassen haben. Es geht um Faszination der Gleichzeitigkeit dieser beiden Welten vor und hinter der Bühne, die getrennt voneinander - und Bedingung füreinander zugleich sind. Und um diese ganz besondere Energie im Hier und Jetzt hinter den Kulissen, die sich sich von einer Sekunde auf die andere in einer Zukunft vor den Kulissen entlädt.

Applaus hinter dem geschlossenen Schlussvorhang.

ÜBER "SPIEGEL.BILDER"

Wenn wir vor einen Spiegel treten, kreieren wir ein Selbstportrait. Wenn wir vor eine Kamera treten, kreiert der Photograph ein Portrait von uns. Ersteres ist flüchtig, Zweiteres beständig. Mittels einer eigens konstruierten Spiegelbox (Dank an Thomas Lehmann), die zwischen dem Portraitierten und der Kamera positioniert wird und einen halbdurchlässigen Spiegel auf der dem Portraitierten zugewandten Seite und eine Öffnung für die Kameraoptik auf der anderen Seite besitzt, habe ich mir die Möglichkeit geschaffen, diese flüchtigen Selbstportraits photographisch festzuhalten. Ich will mit diesen Spiegel-Bildern dem Subjekt einen Teil der Kontrolle über sein Portrait zurückgeben. Und gleichzeitig fragen: Was sehen wir, wenn wir uns selbst betrachten?

Entstanden mit dem Team des Pornfilmfestival Berlin 12 im Kino Moviemento.

ABOUT "I HAD A DREAM"

THEME

Sleep is a mystery. Every day we lay down in a dark room and remain silent, with our eyes closed, acting as if we were dead. But we aren’t. We dream. And experience the wildest, funniest, sometimes horrifying and sometimes the most beautiful adventures. Until the alarm clock rings. Waking up is one of the most beautiful and irritating moments in life. We re-emerge in the world of the living. And sometimes, if only for a few seconds we are not quite sure who we are or where we are. For this short period of time we are in a kind of „twilight zone“ between sleeping and not being really awake. It’s a very special moment you cannot “create”. It’s just there.

PAST

„Up, up, you rabbits, don’t you hear the hunter blowing?“ When we were children every Sunday my father woke us up with those words. At the time, my brother and I hated that. But only briely! Because a few hours later when we explored Austria’s forests together our father took us from one adventure to the next. We both are very grateful for this wonderful childhood.

PRESENT

40 years later with me being a photographer now it all starts to evolve into an art-project. It startet about two years ago. I was visiting my brother in Vienna and I was already awake when he entered the guest room where I had slept. He had obviously just woken up because he was looking so funny, so charming, so gentle – he was still in his „twilight zone“. I immediately said: „Wait, I’ll be back in a second!“. I grabbed my camera, went back and shot two portraits of him. The first of those two was ‘it’. That captured all of what I had seen and loved – and much more. Still today it makes me happy when I see this photograph. There’s so much intimacy, beauty, so much life in it. The power of this moment, of this interaction, of this photograph, has never quite left me. It’s the power of „I’m here“, but without wearing the first mask of the day, without playing the first of our roles in our everyday lives. This led to my first exhibition with photographs of my family and friends just after they woke up. The exhibition took place in Berlin on April 7th 2017 at the „Grafenfels Manufaktur“, a manufacturer of handcrafted mattresses.

FUTURE: THE WORK „I HAD A DREAM“

Now it’s time for the next step: To get out to the world with this idea and make a work out of it by portraying complete strangers waking up in their hotel rooms. Hotels are special places. There people who don’t know each other share a place. They get together in one house, share good times, sleep under the same roof and wake up in a room where the day before a complete stranger woke up. I want to cordially invite every guest who is interested in this special moment to share that experience with me by shooting a portrait of her or him – immediately after waking up in his or her room. The Circus Hotel Berlin was the first hotel to participate in this fascinating project in September 2017.

OBJECTIVE

I want to catch the beauty of life, the beauty of people not yet wearing their first “mask of the day” and share these beautiful images with the world at an exhibition of the best photographs as framed FineArt-prints in the lobby of the hotel. Besides that I would love the guests to share that very special experience with their friends and family when returning back home to maybe make this world a better place.