Screen Romance - about the digitalization of relationships
In the episode "Screen Romance", gallery owner Rudolf Leeb talks to artist Michaela Putz about her works, which she first showed under the title of the same name at Foto Wien 2019 in the Rudolf Leeb Gallery, and how she fared as an artist in the Corona Quarantine. Some of the works created during this phase will be shown in the upcoming exhibition "Stand by" starting May 6, 2020.
Shortly before the start of the Corona quarantine, Michaela Putz returned from Lisbon, where she was working on an artist's book as part of the start-up scholarship sponsored by the Federal Chancellery.
Her works, created since 2016, are particularly concerned with technology-based memory, the storage and retrieval of memories through virtual image memories. She is concerned with the implications of a society reduced to the surfaces of digital communication technologies and its influence on self-image, intimacy and memories. Screens seem to manifest themselves as the fingerprints of our digital age, through whose reflections we constantly see ourselves - but are also confronted with the traces we leave on the perfect and smooth surfaces: stains and streaks of dirt and human fat.
(c) Eva Kelety, picture rights