Three Paths to the Lake
The title of the exhibition is a reference to Ingeborg Bachmann鈥檚 short story 鈥淭hree Paths to the Lake鈥� the first lines of which confront the reader with an abstract representation of reality: the description of a hiking map for the Kreuzbergl area in the Austrian town of Klagenfurt. Out of the ten paths marked on the map three are supposed to lead to Lake W枚rther, protagonist Elisabeth鈥檚 swimming destination. However, none of the paths make her reach there. Walking the various routes becomes a mental journey into her own past and a reflection about her actions. Elisabeth is a photo journalist who has been mainly documenting events in war zones for many years. Self-doubt about whether her photographs are a true rendering of reality constitutes one of the story鈥檚 central motifs. The story ends with the protagonist not giving up her job, not losing her faith in its social relevance, and instead leaving for another work assignment.
In the course of the storyline she reaches Lake W枚rther in a different way.
With a view to the works of the artists in the exhibition Three Paths to the Lake, Bachmann鈥檚 story touches upon central artistic concerns including the reflection of one鈥檚 own creation process and the concomitant question of the claim with which one relates one鈥檚 own work to reality. The exhibition revolves around painting in the conflicting fields of representationalism and abstraction.
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The title of the exhibition is a reference to Ingeborg Bachmann鈥檚 short story 鈥淭hree Paths to the Lake鈥� the first lines of which confront the reader with an abstract representation of reality: the description of a hiking map for the Kreuzbergl area in the Austrian town of Klagenfurt. Out of the ten paths marked on the map three are supposed to lead to Lake W枚rther, protagonist Elisabeth鈥檚 swimming destination. However, none of the paths make her reach there. Walking the various routes becomes a mental journey into her own past and a reflection about her actions. Elisabeth is a photo journalist who has been mainly documenting events in war zones for many years. Self-doubt about whether her photographs are a true rendering of reality constitutes one of the story鈥檚 central motifs. The story ends with the protagonist not giving up her job, not losing her faith in its social relevance, and instead leaving for another work assignment.
In the course of the storyline she reaches Lake W枚rther in a different way.
With a view to the works of the artists in the exhibition Three Paths to the Lake, Bachmann鈥檚 story touches upon central artistic concerns including the reflection of one鈥檚 own creation process and the concomitant question of the claim with which one relates one鈥檚 own work to reality. The exhibition revolves around painting in the conflicting fields of representationalism and abstraction.
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