Inner, Outer, Paintings, Friends

Lukas Panek’s Inner, Outer, Paintings, Friends is an archive, a collection of everyday photographs, moments of intimacy, anonymous images from the internet, and the artist’s work sessions. Through this exploration, which constitutes his playground, he documents the variety of representations in today’s online culture. Registers intermingle and create ambiguous narratives. In the process, familiar forms of narrative are deliberately undermined and the reader is immersed and drawn into the flow of images.

Inner, Outer, Paintings, Friends thus gathers more than 500 images and presents in its second part Lukas Panek’s paintings. Selected from this flow, they are both extracts of a global experience common to all, and a reflection of a personal world.

This book plunges us into the abundant, vibrant and playful work of this young Berlin artist, a graduate of the Dusseldörf school, and offers us an extremely current vision of contemporary photography.

This publication was produced with the support of Mook Gallery, Dusseldörf.