Domestic Sculpture Garden. Sites of Desire

Michael Strasser

Publisher
Fotohof
Year
2012
ISBN
9783902675637
Specifications
Softcover
35.5 x 29.7 cm
68 pages
50 colour images
2 b/w images
Limited edition of 500
Language: English, German
Text by Fatos Ustek
Design by SCHiENERL / ppfmd

The starting point for Michael Strasser’s interventions, staged specially for the photographs, are empty rooms characterised by a sense of in-betweenness and the imminent transformation into something new. Initially the onlooker feels alone, but very soon the presence of objects brought to life becomes palpable. Golden tubes wildly snake their way across the room; parquet flooring tiles pile up to form a human-sized something and peak out of a window; a brown, stained carpet cowers in a corner, then appears neatly folded as if waiting for someone to collect it. Michael Strasser’s works showcase the past and reluctantly edge out the future. They reveal the traces of identity that remain whenever we leave the intimacy of our living spaces.

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