For BK Foto #2, parts of the picture database “Image” of the University of Applied Arts Vienna are reproduced as stickers using a thermal printing process. Thus, reproductions of artistic works become the content of this album. Through label printers, the curated canon of art history is translated into the language of rationalisation. The thermal method is a printing process of efficiency. Low maintenance. Fast. Error-free.
Playfully, the album takes advantage of these qualities and transcends institutionally created hierarchies. Classic categories are renegotiated without completely dissolving them. The album takes up collecting, archiving, and decentralised curating as a starting point for reinterpreting the structures that go along with them. An open system allows for free combination. Contexts postulated on the pages create new spaces for the reproduced motifs and unpredictable dialogues. A new understanding of the image emerges, expanding canonical readings. This artist book becomes an expansion of the exhibition space
Playfully, the album takes advantage of these qualities and transcends institutionally created hierarchies. Classic categories are renegotiated without completely dissolving them. The album takes up collecting, archiving, and decentralised curating as a starting point for reinterpreting the structures that go along with them. An open system allows for free combination. Contexts postulated on the pages create new spaces for the reproduced motifs and unpredictable dialogues. A new understanding of the image emerges, expanding canonical readings. This artist book becomes an expansion of the exhibition space
(exhibitionview LLLLLL, 2023)