Technical advances make space disappear. Be it the countryside that is transformed into a flyover-country, or meeting places that were once central for everyday life
(an example for this is the washhouse, that vanished with the advent of the washing machine) that lie abandoned in the 21st century. With the rise of instantaneous digital media,
this process is accelerated, and social spaces are increasingly translocated into (or, deserted and afterwards emulated within) online spaces. They are detached from physical limitations,
but often controlled by companies or privateers. The access to the remaining places with an "analogue" social life is increasingly becoming a privilege for the well-off.
Many of the pictures here could be read in this context, to a point were we might even see a reconstruction of this process: In the work of Crash-Stop,
the places that are depicted are often distant, dreamlike, and unreachable. Many pictures show the city as twisted, strange, molten, or abstracted being.
Different times and places bleed into each other, but the motives and structures that are shown shown are - just as the colors they now bear - alien, yet still familiar. Its habitants
are either absent, hidden, or displaced and transformed along with their homes and living-worlds. They might seem as uncanny to us as the space they now inhabit.
But there are also new rooms, often purely defined by their function, and clearly belonging to an idealized, alien sphere; no link to the outer world can be surmised by us.
Is this a warning, a playful comment on the status quo, an invitation to explore the world behind the technical mirror, or everything all at once? Or a fully different thing?
