Luc Holper is a fine art photographer from Luxembourg, and the latest in Aesthetica’s coverage of contemporary abstraction. His compositions deliberately break with conventional representation, instead offering a fluid, evolving experience that each viewer is encouraged to interpret in their own way. Holper is inspired by theories of light, as written by Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. The resulting images show colours meeting, merging and colliding – something Holper calls “a complex visual ballet.” Layers of texture and reflection are built-up, creating scenes where identifiable visual cues are erased. The idea: to blur the boundaries between recognisable and imaginary forms. Holper uses these techniques to hold a mirror to “the complexities and contradictions” of an ever-changing society, building bodies of work that are rooted in a mixture of clarity and confusion, connection and isolation. lucholper.com

All images: Luc Holper, from Escape. Image courtesy of the artist.