Michael Schäfer analyzes news and entertainment images from the classic print media as well as amateur videos on YouTube. The artist's gaze rubs against the overdetermination of media images, their excess of meaning and meaning, which literally presents the viewer with a historically political constellation as a finished interpretation. Michael Schäfer removes the faces of the actual protagonists from such found images and replaces them with his own photographs of actors. Pressure points or pixels meet the artist's hyper-sharp image fragments. This approach to photography is a form of artistic mimicry, a way of incorporating images in order to be able to deconstruct them. ***** Michael Schäfer ' s work analyzes news and entertainment images from classical print media as well as amateur videos from YouTube. The artist's gaze is drawn to the over-determination of media images, their surplus of importance and meaning, which formally present a historical-political constellation to the viewer as if it were a finished interpretation. Michael Schäfer removes the faces of the protagonists in these found images and replaces them with his own photos of actors. Pressure points or pixels meet the artist's hyper-sharp image fragments. This way of dealing with photography is a form of artistic mimicry, a kind of assimilation of images in order to then deconstruct them. which formally present a historical-political constellation to the viewer as if it were a finished interpretation. Michael Schäfer removes the faces of the protagonists in these found images and replaces them with his own photos of actors. Pressure points or pixels meet the artist's hyper-sharp image fragments. This way of dealing with photography is a form of artistic mimicry, a kind of assimilation of images in order to then deconstruct them. which formally present a historical-political constellation to the viewer as if it were a finished interpretation. Michael Schäfer removes the faces of the protagonists in these found images and replaces them with his own photos of actors. Pressure points or pixels meet the artist's hyper-sharp image fragments. This way of dealing with photography is a form of artistic mimicry, a kind of assimilation of images in order to then deconstruct them.