"In The Pink presents “Below the Surface”, Philipp Keel’s first exhibition in Portugal, gathering a wide selection of the artist’s works from the past two decades.
Keel's luminous and colour-intense photographs celebrate the pleasure and strange beauty of random details and objects. They are filled with tension, are often ironic and oscillate between surrealism and realism. His art is about portraying a state of calmness to a degree that is somewhat melancholic. It is about the absurdity of the ordinary, whose beauty we often overlook, which he makes visible again. For him alienation as an aesthetic instrument, is not only content but method. He changes the apparent reality through willful surge, distortion, but also reduction – Keel suggests reality to sensitize the observer’s view."
