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ABOUT
NEWS
WORK IN PROGRESS
(2023 – ongoing)
Imprints
BOOKS
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
My Dreamhouse is not a House
One Day You Will Miss Me
COMPLETED
WORKS
(2014 – 2024)
Weikendorf
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg (film)
What Remains!?
Let the Game Begin
Mapping Split 3
A March in the City
Graz-Vienna
We Come Together
My Dreamhouse is not a House
My Dreamhouse is Daydreams (film)
One Day You Will Miss Me
ARCHIVE
(2007 – 2014)
The Party
Public Exercise
Cathrine’s Street
Wandeling
Venice
Acaciapark
Neighbours
Annen Street
Private
Archive Theleman Alley
Untitled
Room Nr. 121-136
Brugse Poort
Darling
Clearing (Archive Kurt Wehlte)
Francis in the Morning
Magritte on a Sunday
CONTACT
Imprints
2023 – ongoingFunded by
Kunstraum Steiermark scholarship, The Province of Styria (AT) The Austrian Federal Chancellery (AT) The City of Graz (AT)
Imprints merges memory, observation, and nostalgia for a place and self left behind.
The project explores how distance transforms identity, revisiting spaces as a way to trace change, recover personal narratives, and map the fluidity of time and self.
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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.
The work 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.
The project explores how distance transforms identity, revisiting spaces as a way to trace change, recover personal narratives, and map the fluidity of time and self.
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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.
The work 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.