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Sascha Herrmanns work is an attempt to explore several representations of more or less well known weather phenomena with both, archaic as well as common or even sophisticated kind of practices of photographic imaging.

Hereby, he investigates questions of authorship, relevance and reproduction. His intention is to find several results of imagery research, which are presented in particular arrangements. This concept refers to the close relationship between earliest experimental photography and the first empirically motivated, meteorological studies.

The weather is depending on unpredictable conditions. Therefore the composition of his work is determined by other powers than only his own. He follows the idea of art as an experiment, which forces him to include unpredictable things, randomization or chaotic structures. He is fascinated by the seemingly chaotic processes of weather and the resulting inability for mankind to forecast or regulate it in a controlled manner. In the sky, respectively in the clouds he has also found the possibility to formulate statements about our relationship to the photographic image itself. The sky is sort of a petri dish for his thoughts on contemporary art.

Another important aspect for Sascha Herrmann is the relation between reproduction and representation. The particular subjects of my works circle around a visualization of hidden or even unseen or invisible phenomena, but also around the proportion between significance and insignificance of weather in general and furthermore around the property of photography to generate feelings and insights beyond pure representation. Due to this his work can be considered as a exploration of representing borders, both visible one’s and perceptible one’s.