MEMOSEUM

In 100 years’ time, what is it about an iron that we’ll find most interesting? Is it the material it is made from? Its shape? Its use? Time shifts the way in which we perceive things, assigning changing significance to them and even

In his compilation of drawings and image material, Nikolaus Gansterer refers to hidden or forgotten moments of meaning relating to selected collection objects. Each page of his Memoseum represents a new narrative that opens up a parallel space of possibility for the way in which things are interpreted. Gansterer adopts different approaches, from the historical to the history of ideas, from the formal or functional to the associative, or the history of the institutions themselves. In his synopsis the image constellations create a kaleidoscope of meanings, symbolic of the course of time.

Link: Visit the Memoseum

Year: 2009 -

Materials: Series of take away posters, cardboard installation

Thanks to Simona Koch for layout and web design