Greg Oil


All of my photographs are shot within the walls of my 29-square-meter apartment where I live, and they faithfully record real situations. They are simply color negatives blown up, produced without any computer touch-ups or photomontage. There are three recurring elements in all of the images: first, in each photograph there is one of my oil paintings that I have done in the last seven years; secondly, I always use an exact copy of the door to my parent’s house in Vienna, and lastly, I am there, dressed up as different characters in different stories (a woman, for example, or a gas-stations attendant, or a person with dark eyes).

I want to be absolutely clear that I am not trying to document my paintings through these photographs; however, photographs are transformed when they begin to have a relationship with other forms of art…




Gregor Zivic
Translation by Jacqueline Smith