The Cannstatter Volksfest is one of the largest folk festivals in the world — a place usually overwhelmed by noise, movement, and light. This image shows the opposite.
A fragment of the Ferris wheel, isolated from the constant stream of stimuli. Through a tight crop, the structure appears as a pure composition of steel and light. No sound. No crowd. No motion — only structure.
The LED surfaces, normally part of a loud spectacle, read here as technical patterns, frozen in near-complete stillness. A moment that would hardly be perceptible within the festival itself. Black and white reduces the scene even further. All dominant colors are stripped away. What remains is contrast: light against emptiness, mechanics against darkness.
This work is the only black-and-white piece within the Wasen Series, which explores the visual language of the festival through abstraction and reduction.
The work draws its power from this tension — a site of maximum sensory density shown in a state of absolute calm. A technological object that appears almost futuristic through abstraction. An image that knows the noise — and deliberately ignores it.
Artwork Specifications
Unique work (1/1) 180 × 120 cm 2025 Accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity
Material & Finish
Exposed on Ilford black and white photographic paper Mounted on 3 mm Alu-Dibond
