Lars Edinger –
O Mensch

After Autistic Disco , O Mensch is the new illustrated book by Berlin actor Lars Eidinger. It combines photographs taken with cell phone cameras and SLR cameras from the last three years with some much older images. Eidinger's pictures only resemble seemingly harmless snapshots on the surface. In a society of singularities and the disappearing boundaries between humans and machines, the absurd reality of everyday life appears like a colossal photomontage. From the perspective of an actor who knows that the mutual presence of good and evil is the core of every true and touching character, Lars Eidinger creates images that focus on human ambiguity. The Japanese poet Yoko Tawada, who lives in Berlin, has written short poems in the form of haikus for individual works. The scope of interpretation is thereby expanded to include a poetic level.