Sharing similar biographies in their education both as photographers and artists, Lisa
Rastl and Claudia Rohrauer observe aspects of the photographic from within their applied working practice in order to turn
them into the motifs of their artistic work. The technical and sociocultural foundations of the medium, but also Rastl and
Rohrauers individual and personal working experiences serve as a pool of potential contents and tools to research photography
and to photograph research at the same time.
Besides a strong mediareflexive approach,
processual and conceptual strategies are included in their working methods, creating a space for an expanded understanding
of photography, where process, practice, technique, theory and the motif itself operate simultaneously on the same level,
as equal agents and allies.
Rastls main interests are dedicated to the photographic reproduction of art works
as a perfomative act of appropriation. She examines the shifting authorship between artist and photographer by turning them
upside down, but also thinks about image related questions arising from the depths of collections and photographic archives
of art institutions. In comparison, Rohrauers work often develops project-related, mimicing the procedural methods of scientific
processes by setting up semi-fictional but yet personal research scenarios, linking site-specific aspects of a chosen place
with comparable aspects of the photographic. She works with shifts between documentary and abstract image aesthetics, always
following the interest of transfering her reflexions on photography into different media and formats in order to explore the
medium from the distance, observing the transformations that happen inbetween.
Since 2018
they are collaborating in the frame of the project Fotografie als Motiv (together with Caroline Heider and Ruth Horak) - an
exhibtion in 2019 and the same called artist book, which is about to be released in November this year. The collaboration
will continue within the upcoming project FOTOTECHNIKA, which deals with a performative re-reading of the male-connoted field
of photo technique. Rastl and Rohrauer both studied photography at the HGBLVA Vienna, at Friedl Kubelkas School for Artistic
Photography and at the Academy of fine arts Vienna.
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