Georgia Creimer
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Landscape On Loan
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Travelling Home was the theme of the wellenklänge festival in 2008. This year's artist-in-residence could not have proved more suitable: the Brazilian born Georgia Creimer has been living in Vienna for 22 years, so having spent exactly half of her life in Brazil and the other half in Austria. To the question 'Where does the trip home lead?' her reply is understandably: "In both directions."
With her project Geliehene Landschaft she has interpreted the topic travelling home very directly. She brought 28 photographs of the small town of Lençóis in Brazil to Lunz, where she positioned them highly effectively in the form of signs that enter into a dialogue with the Austrian setting — buildings, a construction site, the lakes, the vegetation. The photographs were selected and positioned so that the images from Lençóis corresponded as directly as possible with their new location. The parallels between two places so far apart caused astonishment. It frequently looked as if one just had to pan one's view slightly to see the subject of the depictions in reality. Creimer's signs looked like windows into another world: the distance was overcome for a moment, to feel one's own physical presence in Lunz again the next. Like in the Russian film Window to Paris, where the space-time continuum is actually interrupted, so too Creimer's windows were only temporary windows, merely landscapes on loan that nevertheless made it possible to make small magical journeys into another world.
(Ruth Horak)
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