Day 21 + 22

I already found out that a daughter of Julyana is living in Styria, Austria.

I am planning to get in touch with her and I hope to find out as much as possible 

about the history of the house in Serdica.

About where this all is coming from
I decided to post a part of a recent exhibition text.
To me it makes more sense to have someone else talk about and analyze my work.

It brings in a different view and notion, important perspectives beyond my own nose.

This text was written by Karin Pernegger, the curator of my show 'Sites of Desire' 

at factory/ Kunsthalle Krems, which will close down tomorrow.

The focus of the photographic works and installations by Michael Strasser (b. 1977) oscillates 

between an analysis of space and the body which is then translated into artistic processes. 

In his work, he contextualizes the physical body between sculpture and architecture 

while decoding the design and dwelling function of space.

Strasser’s work is a meditation on the ways that the relationship between space and people 

can be changed - if, for example, something is taken out of a particular living space or 

if found material is transformed into a sculpture. Within the scope of his artistic practice, 

he has worked with the appropriation of found space and architectural situations as part of 

an investigation into cultural and institutional systems of representation. He has thus 

expanded an architecture-critical examination to include anthropological questions in 

addressing, excerpting, framing and staging the human element of space and architecture.

One of the inspirations for his work was the book Mensch und Raum (1963) by 

Otto Freidrich Bollnow, the founder of “Spatial Anthropology”. [...]

Karin Pernegger (2012)

Some more inspiration for phase 2 of the project.

                            

                             Wood stack, Hamburg Germany 

                                    Stacked stone wall, Kroatia