Weikendorf
202445 b/w images, each 30x40cm, framed
Wallpaper, 300x600cm
Funded by
KOER Niederösterreich
Exhibition design
in collaboration with Fernando Gallegos
Research
with the support of Robert Hanel and Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez
Exhibition views
Julia Gaisbacher
Weikendorf deals with the changes brought about by the new global economic policies and agro-industries from the 1960s onwards and their effects on rural areas and agriculture using the example of the village of Weikendorf in Lower Austria. Around fifty years later, Julia Gaisbacher asks to what extent the changes can still be seen in the townscape today and what traces of that time remain.
Historical images from the Weikendorf archive, extensive conversations, and walks through the community form the starting point for how the various changes were captured. The pictures of Austrian photographer Elfriede Mejchar and American photographer Paul Strand strongly influenced the working process.
Gaisbacher's photographs from Weikendorf are a mixture of documentation and a particular artistic view, which, as framed moments, tell a lot about temporality and change.
Please find images from the exhibition opening here
Historical images from the Weikendorf archive, extensive conversations, and walks through the community form the starting point for how the various changes were captured. The pictures of Austrian photographer Elfriede Mejchar and American photographer Paul Strand strongly influenced the working process.
Gaisbacher's photographs from Weikendorf are a mixture of documentation and a particular artistic view, which, as framed moments, tell a lot about temporality and change.
Please find images from the exhibition opening here