Flying Sails – Les Voiles de Saint Tropez
Marc Lins’ practice interrogates the potential of pure aesthetics across a diverse range of media, including photography, sculptures, installations and videography. His work conceptualizes abstraction as a de-materialization process that inevitably creates unusual perspectives — manifesting the voids, absences, or paradoxes that challenges conventional perceptions of abstract form and beauty.
Flying Sails, featuring prints and installations, is the result of a long-term collaboration with
Jeanette Linda Seebacher, an artistic confidante.
In the series Flying Sails a simple principle is employed. By removing the ship’s hull, masts, and rigging from otherwise splendid, but mundane images that originally depict sailboats with their sails set, the artist through the creation of surreal images creates compositions that skillfully attempt to defy the viewers expectation.
The images shown above are an excerpt from the edition Flying Sails containing roughly 20 images in total, photographed during the famous annually held regatta Les Voiles de Saint Tropez in southern France.