Imprints

2023 – 2025

Funded by
Kunstraum Steiermark scholarship, The Province of Styria (AT)
The Austrian Federal Chancellery (AT) The City of Graz (AT)


Imprints takes Julia Gaisbacher back to the Terrassenhaussiedlung in Graz – the brutalist housing estate of the 1970s, where she grew up in the 1980s. She weaves a narrative connecting personal memory and architectural history through current photographs, revisited places, and images from her family archive. The project explores how built spaces shape biographies and memory, how temporal and spatial distance alters these memories and the relation to these places. Photography here becomes a means of re-appropriation and re-signification.

Imprints continues Gaisbacher’s long-time exploration of “dream houses,” investigating the ways personal histories become embedded in architecture and how, in turn, these spaces leave enduring marks on the people who inhabit them.

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