The Heinzer Reszler Gallery is pleased to announce Sebastian Stadler’s first exhibition in its gallery. Stadler’s practice of photography and video focuses on highlighting trivial scenes and objects in his environment. He captures the evolution of photography in view of the possibilities offered by technology. When creating images is democratised and easy, and therefore constantly increasing, when the tools for processing/manipulation and promotion of images are growing exponentially, what happens to the purpose of photography and what new perspectives are promised? The series Travertines consists of 40 silkscreen prints on slabs of travertine, a sedimentary limestone rock used to construct the city of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The photosincluded in it were taken during several stays in this region over the past three years. An amphora exhibited in a museum, a pile of snow on a black car or even tables with chess games – each shot transcribes fragments of the history of a region unknown to us and very remote from mass tourism areas. Described by Stephan Wackwitz as “the forgotten centre of the world”, Armenia, stretching beyond the Bosphorus, symbolises the ultimate spiritual frontier on the edge of Europe. The travertine slabs installed directly on the floor of the gallery space seem to have come straight from the quarry, waiting to be processed. Each step through the installation gives the visitor a vague awareness of this distant place. The images become sorts of illusory landmarks in the mosaic of the installation.