Thomas Galler (born 1970) is the recipient of this year’s Manor Art Award. To mark the occasion, Galler will present his recent work in a comprehensive solo exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus. In his works the artist focuses on issues related to power, war, violence and their representation in and reception through the media. Printed media, feature films, the internet and sounds provide the resources for his artistic practice. The artist lifts these objets trouvés from their original context, adapts and rearranges them, recontextualizing them in new fields of political and social meaning. Documentation is combined with fiction, images of war with fashion photography – Galler brings together seemingly contradictory material, in order to reveal its ambiguous potential for social and media critique.