If I put my glasses in the vitrine, they will never break, but will they still be considered glasses?*
Or: Screening an Archive

* quoted after Christian Boltanski

for the show
Von Ferne. Bilder zur DDR

Museum Villa Stuck München (2019)
curated by Sabine Schmid

https://www.villastuck.de/ausstellungen/2019/ferne/index.htm

Catalogue at Buchhandlung Walther König, VON FERNE: BILDER ZUR DDR - ed. by Michael Buhrs & Sabine Schmid

My Contribution:
https://issuu.com/katrinmayer/docs/katrin-beitrag-vonferne

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The work was first developed for the project:
Doppelte Ökonomien / Double Bound Economies (2012)

Vom Lesen eines Fotoarchivs aus der DDR (1967 – 1990) /
Reading an East German Photo Archive, 1967–1990

Vgl:
http://katrinmayer.net/index.php/ausstellungen/double-bound-economies/

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Fotos (c) Nikolaus Steglich (Museum Villa Stuck) und Katrin Mayer

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