Collapse

installation, objects, video animation
2017 - 2018

Claudia Larcher shows isolated architectural elements. They are delicate, as if dissected, removed from their original context, with a scalpel. At first glance there may be nothing to see of the collapse in the title to Claudia Larcher's work series, nothing collapsing, no destruction. However, regardless of whether a video, framed montage or wall installation, her compositions in the space have that concrete yet highly unreal quality of dreams. They do not depict the collapse of particular buildings but stand for the collapse of Modernist architectural paradigms. Larcher's complex composition in the space does not have a unifying viewpoint in front of the picture. Instead, several images, spaces and times coincide. The heterotopias built in this way can be understood as an indication that it no longer makes sense to maintain a Modernist line of thinking. Or, to use the words of the Einstürzenden Neubauten, "we are the new golden hoards".

(excerpts by a text by Gudrun Ratzinger, 2018)