Claudia Larcher - Habitat
08.03.2019 - 25.05.2019, Schauraum, Q21, Museumsquartier Wien / At
Curated by Ruth Schnell and Tommy Schneider
The artist Claudia Larcher uses abstraction, exaggeration and alienation to stage living spaces that deal with the architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Two exhibits meet in the showroom: on the one hand, the video installation Habitat (Silver Towers), which can be read as a documentation of a stay abroad in an apartment complex in New York City, and the object "Floppy". This exposes a façade structure, with fabric serving as image carrier and mounting material. The use of fabric evokes the principle of the curtain wall, a type of 20th century building in whose triumphant advance Mies van der Rohe, among others, played a decisive role.
Claudia Larcher is an artist with a focus on video, photography, collage and installation, and she also experiments with live visuals at performances and concerts. International presentations, including Viennale Vienna, steirischer herbst Graz, Tokyo Wonder Site Japan, Slought Foundation Philadelphia, Centre Pompidou Paris, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Anthology Film Archives NYC; in 2016 she received the Outstanding Artist Award for Video and Media Art. A monograph on her work has just been published by De Gruyter Verlag.