Benjamin Schlemmer
My practice moves between film, sound art and installation and explores how realities are formed through processes of selection, omission and interpretation.
I am drawn to elements that usually remain unnoticed or deliberately removed. These include abandoned urban spaces, discarded fragments of digital sound, invisible technological systems and mediated images of distant events. By isolating and recontextualising these residual layers, I shift them into the foreground and turn absence into a central aesthetic and conceptual component.
Reconstruction from incomplete information is a recurring method in my work. Architectural forms reconstructed from incomplete archival imagery, sound composed from restoration artefacts or organic systems controlled by digital data all serve to expose how unstable and subjective our understanding of reality can be.
Sound plays a structural role throughout my practice. I often generate compositions from the traces of physical or digital processes and transform them through feedback and abstraction, creating immersive atmospheres that oscillate between familiarity and unease.
My works function as perceptual environments rather than linear narratives. They invite viewers to experience uncertainty and to question how reality is mediated, constructed and emotionally internalised.
