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.
Unser Österreich was exhibited at my solo exhibition Eheä Maailma (Cohesive World) in Galleria Huuto Uudenmaankatu, 24.10.-11.11.2012, Helsinki.
Other collage works in the exhibition were Under the Alps, Postcard from nowhere, Aavan meren tuolla puolen (Tallinna – Pärnu) and Uljas kaupunki.
