Hans Hemmert

Born in 1960 in Hollstadt (Germany), he lives and works in Berlin.

Hans Hemmert's sculptural work, coupled with photographs or light boxes and videos, starts with a simple intention: to transform his immediate environment and familiar actions by incorporating a thin layer of yellow latex between himself and the world - a second skin that instils a tactile dimension in the interstices of reality. Driving his car or meditating in the studio are gestures and attitudes that generate sculptures and photographs.

In Cahors, he presents recent photographs, including one made in situ at the Moulin Saint-James, which dialogues with the landscape visible from the windows - a Telecom antenna at the top of the mountain thus becomes a basketball hoop (Basket, 2000).