Strangely, I Look More Realistic Now

Lisa Truttmann

Lisa Truttmann

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Strangely, I Look More Realistic Now

Mixed media installation, 2025

Mixed media installation, 2025

C-print, dibond, wooden frame, 50 x 75 cm
Charred plastic elephant figurine on a pedestol
Audio installation, stereo, 2:30 min.
Text and voice: Andy Rector

Presented in the duo exhibition Unseen
Together with works by Ian Strange
IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT

In the photo installation Strangely, I Look More Realistic Now, Lisa Truttmann presents a small, charred plastic elephant placed on a pedestal. It faces a photograph of an identical but intact white elephant, as if looking at its mirror image. The figure of the white elephant is one of Truttmann’s seventeen “Protagonisdingen,” which include objects damaged or destroyed in a fire in her studio apartment in 2019. For each object, the artist developed a fictional character and imaginary biography. Therefore she invited writers to produce individual biographies for each. Viewers can listen to the biography of the elephant shown here via headphones in the form of an intimate audio installation featuring the voice of author Andy Rector. The artist opens up a mnemonic-fictional space that links together various semantic and referential areas of her multi-year work on the theme of the apartment fire and ultimately raises ontological questions about the status and relationship between object and subject, between thing and human per se.

Excerpt from the exhibition text by David Komary, originally written in German


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Description
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Credits
Excerpts
Credits
Technical support
Gerald Roßbacher
Text and voice
Andy Rector
Translation of the audio transcript
Stefania Schenk Vitale

Unseen curated by
Vasilena Gankovska
David Komary
Collaborative exhibtion
IG Bildende Kunst
AIR Artist in Residence Lower Austria