Collage on MDF
1000 x 50 cm (in 10 parts)
2012
About the work
I found a book called Unser Österreich from a flea market in Berlin. It was a German propaganda publication from 1938, a book that contained black and white pictures of a country that shortly thereafter became part of the Nazi empire.
I cut the pictures out of the book and with collage technique turned them into a landscape. It was as if an impossible puzzle to complete as the pieces didn’t match, a slow manual process to fit the pieces together. The result is a 10-meter long collage that is seemingly cohesive, yet at the same time the artificial nature of the landscape is obvious. This creates the perception of a landscape at times cohesive and fragmented on the next.
This work was part of my solo exhibition Eheä Maailma aka Cohesive World exhibited together with the collage works Postcard from nowhere, Under the Alps, Aavan meren tuolla puolen and Uljas kaupunki.
