UNTITLED 2020
by
Margarita Keller and Veronika Dirnhofer
by
Margarita Keller and Veronika Dirnhofer
The project-artist book is a mixture of vernacular analog photography of 11
ordinary families from Graz and Vienna, who document their self-isolation period during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two artists Veronika Dirnhofer and Margarita Keller distributed compact points and shoot analog cameras and asked people to observe their life for 2 weeks.
The project aims to explore the issue of creativity in terms of forced circumstances, how the slowdown that we all face can influence people with different backgrounds, ages, and various living conditions. Besides collaboration with other people, the artists also took part in this experiment by sharing their very personal experiences during the isolation. They question identity formation and fragmentary perception of the body and mind, mixing ceramics and photography media.
ordinary families from Graz and Vienna, who document their self-isolation period during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two artists Veronika Dirnhofer and Margarita Keller distributed compact points and shoot analog cameras and asked people to observe their life for 2 weeks.
The project aims to explore the issue of creativity in terms of forced circumstances, how the slowdown that we all face can influence people with different backgrounds, ages, and various living conditions. Besides collaboration with other people, the artists also took part in this experiment by sharing their very personal experiences during the isolation. They question identity formation and fragmentary perception of the body and mind, mixing ceramics and photography media.
Such a social collaboration also opens the possibility to cross boundaries in the perception of art in ordinary life, which sometimes seems quite far, disrupted from each other, when art could be taken like something confusing, untouchable, or supreme. This book blurs the boundaries between things we used to call art and non-artistic perspective. It visually contemplates and shares different stories, pushing forward all the outlooks and serves as a documental archive of vague, vital, or even crucial periods in people’s lives.
“In the spring of 2020, many of us found ourselves spending much more time at home than ever before. This new and unavoidable situation let us reevaluate the importance of our surroundings and people in it. And, while being under the lockdown the view to inside and outside at 3600 angle was discovered by many staying in the same situation. Thus giving us a possibility to understand and record these moments from new or very different perspectives. Captured by people themselves, this documentation of their surroundings during the recent lockdown becomes a preservation of a historical period of time, which most of us are starting to forget”.
Justina Špeirokaitė August, 2020
Justina Špeirokaitė August, 2020
Huge thanks to:
Ghulam Abbas Rezaie
Lisa Kunit
Aura Baumgartner
Knud Jörgen
Emma Dirnhofer
Bodo Bandion
Gaby Leitner
Adnan Babahmetovic
Timea von Heesen
Tabea von Heesen
Halid Nuhu
Ghulam Abbas Rezaie
Lisa Kunit
Aura Baumgartner
Knud Jörgen
Emma Dirnhofer
Bodo Bandion
Gaby Leitner
Adnan Babahmetovic
Timea von Heesen
Tabea von Heesen
Halid Nuhu
