Florian Leible’s work explores the inner essence and energy of things, striving to make them perceptible and tangible. With a sensitive approach, his art engages with the essence of people and the environment, examining our relationship to objects and nature through the interplay of light and aesthetics.

By building his own devices, Leible is expanding and freeing the rules of photography. Playing with parameters and technical limitations, his work is changing the size and shape of cameras. Objects are located both in and outside the camera. Exposure times are freely estimated and the number of aperatures vary with every new build.

Photography is essentially a very rule-bound medium. The inner workings of a camera are dominated by specifications that are intended to guarantee a good image. Exact distances, perfect lenses that ensure a clean incidence of light, mechanical exposure times and predictable depths of field.

Deconstructing these parameters, Leible's work is giving photography the chance to release its genuine potential, enriching the photographic dialog with a new powerful voice. His works record not even a second of time, but reveal a very alive state of change, a transition which becomes visible.

In any state of being we are transending, from one moment into another, from experience to reflection, our energy is in a constant state of flow. Every state has its unique character, its own darkness and beauty.

The studies of Florian are trying to capture these volatile moments of being, softly banning compositions of vivid colors and shapes. Drifting away from realism, his work shows a subtile but captivating version of the inconcrete. Leaves, blossoms and natural materials become protagonists, interacting and shaping uncommon visual narratives into color and light.