A shell found on the beach. Splashes of water between it and our gaze. The shell's surface, its grooves, reveal its age. The past time becomes a phenomenon of the surface. In the work of Marius Glauer (b. 1983 Oslo), it is this resonant relationship between surface, materiality and temporality that can be described as the artist's central interest.

The medium in which the artist works, photography, has always had a particularly complex relationship to the concept of surface. In the era of analog film, it was still the light-sensitive place where images were recorded, but the contemporary media landscape is characterized by countless new digital surfaces on which images show themselves to us and come into contact with one another. Wait a Minute, Glauer's first institutional exhibition in Austria, challenges us to pause for a moment and focus the camera against the backdrop of these dizzying imagery. What image of temporality can photography create today? In response to this question, Marius Glauer shows us shiny, opulent surfaces that reflect images from art history and pop culture. He shows sensual liveliness in lifeless objects, visual tensions of materialities from 'high' and 'low' aesthetics, but above all he shows the manifold forms that photography can currently take.

In a wide variety of display situations he allows photography to resonate with ideas from sculpture, installation and fashion. The material from which Glauer's photographs are made is permeable - artistic signatures, eras, forms and dates overlap, adapt to their surroundings and tell of the plural perspectives that photography can take on reality. Glauer approaches questions about the representation of temporality in the photographic image with a fusional and boundary-breaking attitude. Processuality becomes more important than finality. But maybe a final form is just a flash-like snapshot?