Roswitha Weingrill

This ongoing series of drawings is based on information found on the public onlince archives of the Austrian Statistical Services. By chemically altering the former black markers, the accuracy of statistic information is questioned when it comes to describing individual and personal realities.

By making new paper out of the former portfolios i tried to destroy all legible image information without deleting it entirely. Each body of work contained in the portfolio was recycled seperately, delivering its very own shaded paper. Containing all the information of the former artwork, like unsorted digital image information or pixels, the original image is illegible but not lost.

Negotiating the concepts of collaboration, authorship and interpretation Joe Watling and Roswitha Weingrill have produced the show ‘In view of…’. With an analytical and intuitive approach they have responded to each others work and the conditions of its production and display.

Realisiert in Kooperation mit der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologin Michaela Schellnegger für The smallest gallery.

A process of analysing a development assitence project in Brasil led to a threedimensional map depicting the conflicts among the various groups involved. Particularely designed chequed patterns link personal experiences to theoretical conclusions questioning roles, intentions and consequences foreign aid.

The gaps of the patterns of everyday-used plastic baskets serve as stencils for her drawings that portrait and speculate the origin location, possible stations in beetween the origin and destination and the different ways consumers use those objects. In a world of mass production a variety of fields of interpretations are possible in between reproduction and variation