Photography is in the center of Lulay’s artistic production and research, but more than producing photographs herself she is interest in the role that photography plays in our everyday life’s. What motivates us to take pictures? How does photography shape our view on the world and our concepts of reality? And how does the information of an image transform itself when it leave the personal context inside which it had been produced?

Fully aware of today's overproduction of images, Lulay collects photographs of friends and strangers, from flea markets and from the internet and mixes them with her own pictures. To her, photographs are a "raw material“, that she processes and manipulates using a variety of techniques. Her collages and installations, paintings and videos break up the two-dimensional surface of photography and confront us with a fragmented, multilayered world full of tromp l’oeil effects. Thus Lulay's works challenge our perception and invite us to question the direct connection we generally assume between a photographic picture and the reality it depicts. All works in the show confront us with the strange feeling that there must be something more to see, something that happened before or after, something that lays hidden underneath but to which we can not have access. Lulay’s works point out that a photograph is no more than a rectangular visual cut-out and that therefore every photograph shows as much as it hides. Or as the German philosopher Hans Belting puts it: "There is no use pointing the camera at the world: there are no images out there. We create (or have) them only inside ourselves." In a time in which we are bombarded with pictures of all kinds, Lilly Lulay's work is also to be understood as an appeal not to be seduced by pictures, but to take the time to take a closer look at what is shown in order to form your own picture.