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Mushrooming Petra Noll |
| The photo works of the Galerie-Raum series by Catharina Freuis were completed two years ago. They are not based on real rooms but on invention, relying on room models that are, however, based on images from collective memory. These artificial spaces are so meticulously detailed that they appear deceptively real. As the series progresses, the rooms undergo an escalating 'take-over' by a proliferating form which eventually occupies the whole space, transforming it into the realms of the surreal. Because of the artist's intervention, the room increasingly begins to "move", it undergoes deformation from within and loses the rigidity of its architectural construction. The work is a reconsideration of the definition of space, perception, reality and fiction as well as the medium of photography. |
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Petra Noll, curator for contemporary art, art historian and author, www.kunstnoll.de For the exhibition 'Mushroomin', Fotogalerie Wien, 2012 |