Merzmensch - Photograph Seller

From the series: NeoreAIlism
Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.

Merzmensch – Photograph Seller

A man stands silently, surrounded by faces that are not his.

In Photograph Seller, Merzmensch transports us into a surreal corridor full of portraits—forgotten facial expressions, lost glances, anonymously framed memories waiting to be collected. The young man in the center, stiff in his dark coat, seems less like a seller than a steward of what others have left behind.

The scene evokes the aesthetics of early 20th-century photography, yet is unmistakably artificial—a constructed moment that seems both too perfect and too impossible. Part nostalgia, part archival fiction, this work from the "NeoreAIlism" series raises a simple yet disturbing question: What remains of us when even our image is for sale?

The contrast between presence and absence, between memory and commerce, becomes the silent drama of this work. It is not just a portrait of a man—it is a meditation on the economy of memory.