Der nachgebildete Blick / The replicated gaze

23.04. 2013 -01.06. 2013, das weisse haus, Vienna

Claudia Larcher's works generate space and time continuums displaced from reality. In her videos and collages Larcher reconstructs the wandering of the look over real architectural surfaces whose spatial connection will break down, however, finally, in itself.
In her videos this appears mostly not immediately, but only bit by bit, first at short moments only. For instance if a metal railing to which a camera is "attached", suddenly ends in Nothing; later when edges turn into lines and rooms become abstract flickering pictures, or if single elements start to split up like in a kaleidoscope. A parallel controlled soundtrack reminding of Noise (Constantin Popp) fulfills the emptiness and apathy of the pictures with the most different evocations.
Works like "Empty Rooms" or "Baumeister" repeat the structure and movement of certain existing architectures, "Baumeister" for example refers to the broadcasting centre Dornbirn by Gustav Peichl, which is based on the form of a Nautilus snail.

Works like "Empty Rooms" or "Baumeister" repeat the structure and movement of certain existing architectures, "Baumeister" for example refers to the broadcasting centre Dornbirn by Gustav Peichl, which is based on the form of a Nautilus snail.
The realization is essential: Larcher does not film the space directly, but photographs of the space which she has taken before. The camera view is not that of a moved camera, but an animation, in a certain way, a faked, a reproduced view.
This on assembly, collage or sampling based method refers to a topos of the Postmodernism, after the differentiation of original and copy, model and replica, reality and imagination has become impossible. The cinematic "replica" overlays documentary pictures of architecture as we know them possibly from architecture magazines: reserved, chilly and deserted. Redundancy and fragmentariness of any documentation and, in the end, also of any portrayal of reality become evident. (Text: Ines Gebetsroither)

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