Participatory Installation, 2020
Wire, copper, velvet, glass, mirror, plastic, aluminium, ceramic, poly foam, display, acrylics, stereo sound, LED light
Dimensions variable, 10min looped
DWDS, Bregenz, AT
Painting Series, 2024
Ink on paper, sugar
160 x 120cm
STAGE, Bregenzer Festspielhaus, Bregenz, AT
The work group Window Shopping is based on photos Martina Morger took back in 2019 in the streets of Venice of its empty shopping windows during the night. All is left are the displays presenting themselves waiting to be restocked again the next morning. The view through the shop window, the pleasure of seeing, keeps things at a distance. A hurried passing, anonymous sauntering, just browsing, something glittery, wandering glances and reflective spotlights. The lights slowly blur into a surface of dreamy desires, yearning for resolution.
Window Shopping gives an insight into a world shaped by desire and healing through consumption. Seductive and alien at the same time. Rooms full of loneliness, with things suddenly left behind, a dystopia seemingly real.
Photos by Martina Morger