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An oil painting (150 x 210 cm) presented with a spatial installation, created upon invitation from STRABAG ART. The installation, housed in a specially designed ART Container positioned at the front of Künstlerhaus Vienna, accompanies the exhibition Im erweiterten Raum.

AR layer by Konrad Zamiar.

Curators: Sebastian Haselsteiner and Günther Oberhollenzer

We colonize the past.
The history we learn from textbooks is a story of division, rivalry, and appropriation.
It is a reversed butterfly effect: we construct the image of the past to justify present choices.

We also colonize the future—we impose the shape of the world on generations to come.

The easel painting remains a perfect tool of the market. It submits to the gaze and to consumption like the seemingly inaccessible Odalisque—defenseless in its visibility.
The greedy gaze of the all-knowing Western subject reaches into the corners of oriental chambers, into impenetrable jungles, into everything that was and everything that will be: appropriating, naming, cataloguing.

What lingers longer in memory—the opening ceremony or the ritual of closure?