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  • Works
    • Unvorhersehbare Ereignisse
    • Full Moon
    • Clip
    • Artist and Muse
    • reset
    • Circling the Square
    • About Life
    • Make a wish
    • Es ist so wie es scheint
    • How to work live better
    • Surface Treatment
    • High Performance
    • ‘Best of…’
    • Ordinary subjects larger than life
    • Die Reise der Fotografin
    • Retour en forme
    • Before & After
  • publications
    • Original Issue
    • Origo
  • press
    • artforum
    • this is tomorrow
    • studio international
    • Die Presse
    • Der Standard
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    • korso ARTBox
    • Camera Austria 94_06
  • about
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    • imprint

reset

Walk-in collage in space, billboard posters, wood

Paravent, lamp

Series of analogue photographs

2016/2017/2018/2019

Anita Witek’s installation Reset is reminiscent of folding screens, circular cut-outs puncture the material: exhibition space and pictorial level collapse into a singularity.

Witek uses found material. Her collages draw on an extensive collection of reproductions from mass media, newspapers and posters – ephemera, if one considers their conventional function – from which the central visual information has been removed. What remains are the cut out backgrounds, pictorial borders and silhouettes that have been separated with a knife: the shapes of our desires. The enchanting beauty of Witek’s collages – what attracts us – originates in the interplay of similarities and differences. Abstract formations that are self-referential and remain paradoxical while appearing familiar, just like what they are made of.

Katharina Manojlović

Installation views:

Reset – Art Brussels with l’étrangère Gallery London, Brussels (B)

Reset– European Month of Photography, Galerie Medium, Bratislava (SK) ©Wolfgang Thaler

Collage II_Welcome Home – Fotogalerie Wien, Wien (A) © Michael Michlmayr

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