Raphael Pohl (1998) is a conceptual artist based in Italy and Austria.
His practice is based on installation, object, and film. Recurring contexts include displacement, loss, and reconstruction.
The objects he works with are mostly found in circulation: social-institutional spaces, market areas, voids, apartment blocks,
archive structures, and environments. Some objects remain in their original state; others appear as imitations in aluminum.
For the casting, he uses found aluminum objects and melts them down into new forms. The object is still the same,
but the appearance is deceptive.

In the background, a continuous script runs, remaining absent in filmic form. It provides the stage for the installation.
The narration mixes real dialogues/actions with fictional, symbolic gestures found in everyday economic and social
systems and constructs. The removal of objects from a place creates a gap. The environment shifts.

a hundred times a day, from one riverside to the other… told me the captain