Olive Forest II, Greece, 2019
Sandro Diener's landscape photographs do not attempt to explain specific geographical locations, but to convey moods - by means of an aesthetic of simplicity that is anything but banal. Whether in the Alps, Eastern Europe or Iceland, Sandro Diener waits for the moment when earth, light and the weather create a mystical, almost surreal scenery. Familiar and unfamiliar terrain is transformed into a timeless and placeless topography in which grass, rocks, water and clouds become a surface on which to project our own feelings. While the elements merge into harmonious compositions, the viewer's gaze is thus simultaneously directed outwards and inwards.