In a world where escapism and artifice often mask the harshness of life, Matthias Koch's photographs bear witness to the power of unfiltered truth.

In Matthias Koch's work, this "uncanny strangeness" underlined by the photographic cliché, which in their time appealed to Marcel Proust (who saw in it the mark of absence) and Roland Barthes (who associated it with death), becomes a revelation: that of our vulnerability and the uncertainty of our near future.