Microscopies

“Microscopies” is an installation consisting of a laboratory table, a microscope and microscope glass slides. The cold aesthetic of this setup stands in contradiction to the collection of colourful miniature slide-photos, presented on the object holders. The motives of the pictures are special arrangements out of everyday items, which imitate microscopic structures and life forms and can only be viewed properly through a microscope one by one. To work against the general tendency to glamorise artwork just with enlarged size and to seduce visitors to focus extremely on details is the strategy behind. This project is a game with the perception of physical size and the kind of viewing art objects. While peeping at the pictures through that microscope, you see a hidden world, which seems strangely familiar.

Thanks to:
Anna Werzowa for inspiration
Department for Cell- and Developmental Biology (Med. Uni. Vienna)
and Leonore Mueller