Tom Fabritius

Tom Fabritius takes his motifs from the flood of images emanating from television. Armed with his camera, he hops from channel to channel and photographs individual pictorial moments quickly and intuitively. He then selects individual images from this mass and paints them in watercolour: He does this – not is a photorealistic way – instead the images are simply and reductive, in front of an, at times, stylised background. The artist’s transfer of the images into the medium of watercolour fixes what is typical to such pictorial worlds.