The Berne-based photographer is a guest of the Kunsthalle St. Gallen for the second time. Perceptual processes and their transformation are at the centre of Balthasar Burkhard's work. Monumental enlargements of body fragments take on a sculptural, sometimes almost architectural presence in their dialogue with the external space. For the photographer, light is not a painterly but rather a spatial modelling tool. From deep black grounds it allows orchids, feathers, bodies to emerge, appealing to the sense of touch almost more strongly than the eye. Thus, in perceiving Burkhard's photographs, their relationship to space becomes of central importance. Despite their sharpness of detail, these black-and-white photographs step out of the usual context of the depicted reality.