Examples for Communication

installationview: "Heyday", ARTSPEAK, Vancouver, 2006

The series "examples for communication" uses photomaterial taken out of cheaply produced travel agency brochures.

In these brochures the pictures are used to transport the idea of a happy family vacation.

With a simple computer-aided interference their original intention is turned into its opposite. After removing all additional objects (magazines, toys, drinks etc.) which the models originally were given to make them look contented, the view is drawn on the relations between the acting people.

The apparent attracting, positive and enviable situation of succeeded communication changes into a state of miscommunication.

Referring to their original name in the nomenclatur of the travel brochures ("example for living"; German: "Wohnbeispiel"), they are titled "example for communication #...".

installationview: "(n)irgendwo", Villa Spengelin - Kunstverein Lindau, 2001
(front: Dorit Margreiter; middle: Peter Freitag; back: Jeanette Abbée)

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