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2004

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Object description	Installation: 1 roll-film camera, tripod, 2 color photopraps, Diasec
Object category	sculpture
Dimensions	Objektmaß: height: 41 cm, width: 120 cm, depth: 2,7 cm, height: 120 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: 50 cm
Year of acquisition	2005
Inventory number	P 631/0
Creditline	mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben mit Unterstützung der Gesellschaft der Freunde der bildenden Künste
Rights reference	Kuitenbrouwer, Mirjam
Further information about the person	Kuitenbrouwer, Mirjam [GND]
Literature	Why picture now/Fotografie, Film, Video, heute

The photographs of the series “Case Study Window” show landscape views of a nature reserve in the Netherlands. Following the model of the architecture of the Case Study Houses in Los Angeles, Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer constructed a brass-framed ideal “window” that, attached to the front of the lenseless camera, gives the impression of looking through the glazed façade of a modernist house. The artist thus plays with mechanisms of perception, the lines separating imaginary and real interior and exterior spaces, and the relationship between spatial vision and viewing space. The window as the frame of the view recalls the parallel between beholder and camera, both marked by the perception of incessantly shifting outlooks and insights. In the exhibition installation, the principle according to which the photographs are constructed can be followed by looking through a camera obscura that the artist herself had built.

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