Paul-Armand Gette's photographs appear uneventful. Trees, patches of vegetation, anonymous corners of the city and seemingly ordinary urban landscapes. Yet this apparent neutrality is precisely the point. The exotic is perhaps something distant, but maybe it emerges from a change in attention.

Published in Berlin in 1980, Exotik als Banalität ("Exoticism as Banality") traces botanical species from other continents that have quietly become part of Berlin's everyday environment. The city transforms into a living herbarium. 

By the same token, the conceptual art also changes. Spectacular gesture is replaced with patient observation. 

See Also
KUNSTFORUM's entry about the artist.