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25. March 2012 bis 24. June 2012

The focus of the photographic works and installations by Michael Strasser (b. 1977) oscillates between an analysis of space and the body which is then translated into artistic processes. In his work, he contextualizes the physical body between sculpture and architecture while decoding the design and dwelling function of space.

Strasser’s work is a meditation on the ways that the relationship between space and people can be changed - if, for example, something is taken out of a particular living space or if found material is transformed into a sculpture. Within the scope of his artistic practice, he has worked with the appropriation of found space and architectural situations as part of an investigation into cultural and institutional systems of representation. He has thus expanded an architecture-critical examination to include anthropological questions in addressing, excerpting, framing and staging the human element of space and architecture.

One of the inspirations for his work was the book Mensch und Raum (1963) by Otto Freidrich Bollnow, the founder of “spatial anthropology”. The Factory presents the group of works entitled “Domestic Sculpture Garden” (2010-2012). The works will include different ‘found spatial situations’ that will be transformed into sculptures and then recorded in photographs. As part of the Danube Festival (April 28 - May 5, 2012), Michael Strasser together with Annette Sonnewend under the label CIE. AGAR AGAR will develop a performance that reacts to the exhibition space.

The exhibition will take place in cooperation with the Galerie im Traklhaus Salzburg.

Curator: Karin Pernegger