The book as an imaginary space – space as an infinite book whose pages
are to be stripped off: The project Claudia Larcher – Rooms, by the Viennese artist born in Bregenz in 1979, unfurls the multilayered
space-time realities generated in her works.
Larcher’s photographs, collages, video animations, (textile) objects
and installations make spatial boundaries elastic; space continua find themselves stretched into infinity or compressed into
an origin, shifted into each other or resampled. In a single act of appropriation, images of architecture, landscapes, nature,
and even skin are used like found footage material in order to reconceptualize the surfaces and structures of what is real.
The book visualizes the works of the artist in numerous image sequences.
Verena Konrad, Director of vai Vorarlberger
Architektur Institut
Claudia Larcher, visual artist, Vienna
