After my mother's death in 2017 and looking through her estate, loose ends became knotted. Why hadn't I recognized this before? I now understood why I created sculptures and installations from war debris, I understood how my photographic imagery had come about, why I manically collected and hoarded certain things: it is because of the family myth of the almost complete destruction of my birth town and the reconstruction of my grandparents house from rubble.
The book project concludes a long-term cycle of works and combines photographic, graphic and sculptural works with essays.
Martin Kesting is a photographer, sculptor and he creates jewellery. He lives and works in Berlin Neukölln. In his sculptures and installations, found objects and materials formed by the elements are often combined with photographs and text. Martin is interested in transience, intermediate states, traces and structures. For several years he has worked on a long term series about Berlin in which he uses, among other things, excavated WWII bomb debris.
In 2020 he published teh photo book „The Wheel“, about travels in the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.
Awards "The Wheel" Urban Book Award 2020, Shortlisted
"Seeing Things" Fine Art Photo Awards 2020, Nominee
"The Wheel" PX 3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2021, Bronze
"Sara-la-Kâli" Urban Photo Award 2022, longlist.
"Sara-la-Kâli" Fine Art Photography Awards 2023, Nominée
"Tutto Rotto" PX 3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2023, Bronze
