Mainstream Obsession shows photographs by A.C. Kupper from the eponymous collection of several hundred digital images captured over the past few years. A.C. Kupper moves along the urban periphery, which is marked by transitions and ruptures, characterised by an ambiguity of what already exists, the scarred terrain in between and what is emerging.
The artist's approach is based on the simultaneous experience of walking through suburban areas and obsessive, serial recording with the camera. In this environment, his perception is directed towards the new, towards a new standard that triggers in him a longing for the world, a future and the foreign. Mainstream Obsession refers to what constitutes a majority, in the sense that we define urban space through our actions and in which A.C. Kupper creates an individual narrative with his perspective, image production and aesthetics.
What we know through our subjective perception presents itself in these photographs in a sign-like duct. The material world depicted here radiates with a fetishistic aura. Mainstream Obsession is a reference system of repetitions and differences, both in temporal and spatial terms, and poses questions about the field of tension between architecture, public space and infrastructure in the context of urban development and the accompanying economic conditions.