Artist Statement

Installation 2010

The installation presents a scene reminiscent of a scientific laboratory in which the cold cobalt blue lighting and clean perspex surfaces distance us from what we’d like to immerse ourselves in. The tensions between technical and organic elements, between the known and the unknown, between systematic analysis and free associations are combined here to form a most unique experience.

• Herwig Weiser (AT), 1969, lives and works in Vienna and Cologne. He studied architecture at the University Innsbruck and art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. His works have been shown internationally. Among the awards he has received are the Hermann Claasen Award for Photography and Media Art (Cologne, 1999), Jury Award at the Festival of New Film (Split/Croatia, 2000), Transmediale Award (Berlin, 2001), the Nam June Paik Award (Düsseldorf, 2002), and numerous production grants including Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin (2010).

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