ARCHITECTURE & IMAGINATION
Series of 27 slides, 2022

AT THE SHORE
Series
of 21 slides presented on a viewing table plus
three C-prints.
Realised
in
2022 together with Aleksandra Kolodziejczyk.

SYNTHESIS |
Series of three photos, 108cm x 45cm, gelatin silver print on paper, 2022
The work deals with the fascination of the fusion of, at first glace, opposite things. Is it really that difficult to reconcile opposites, or does the separation mainly happen in our heads?
MISSING
Photo-performance together with
God’s Entertainment
In the framework of the opening of GGGNGM - Guggenheim in Floridsdorf? on September 17, 2020 at Am Spitz in Vienna
SYNOPSIS:
Remembering is inconceivable without the act of fixation. Much is spontaneously inscribed into the individual or collective memory, but some things require the conscious act of fixation. In photography, fixation is a deliberate step taken to record an event that has just been exposed for the future. Without it, we can literally watch forgetting take place.
Countless
people and their (hi)stories disappeared in Vienna in the 20th
century. The photographic installation MISSING enabled the
audience to bear witness to disappearance on the one hand, and
remembering on the other.
16 portraits of people from the
Floridsdorf district of Vienna who were killed by National Socialists
during the Second World War were exposed in advance on large-format
photo paper. The images were then developed in front of the audience
in a bath and hung in a red-lit room. After a while, the lights in
the room were turned on and the audience could watch as the images
slowly blackened and eventually (almost) disappeared altogether. To
complement the performative photographic work, a book containing the
biographies of the 16 portrayed people was exhibited.
Inspired by Ulay's Fototot.
Photos: Andreas .muk. Haider
HYPOTHESIS AND INTERPRETATIONS
Exhibition, on view from April 4, 2020 to April 17, 2020 at the Zeta Art Center & Gallery, Tirana, Albania
The exhibition showed works created during my artist residency in September and October 2018 as well as works influenced by this stay. The artistic works deal with topics of migration and memory.
With the support of the Austrian Embassy in Tirana, T.I.C.A., the Regional Government of Styria - A9 Culture, Europe and Foreign Relations, the European Cultural Foundation, and Compagnia di San Paolo.
I. Prologue
Silver gelatine print + A4-sheet with text
2018
II. mare liberum | mare clausum
Film: mare liberum | mare clausum
16mm/digital, 2 minutes 40 seconds + Portable record player + 7”
with locked groove
2019
Photo: mare liberum | mare clausum
C-Print, colour/b&w
2019
III. Memory
Film: untitled
1x loop on a TV-screen with sound
16mm/digital, 2 minutes 40 seconds
2019

2x Silver gelatine prints
2018