Artificial Natures Event

Opening: 22.10.2021, 19:00H
Duration: 22.10.2021 - 05.11.2021
Opening hours: by appointment to: hello@fabrikraum.org
3G Rule and please enter with the mask.

The photographic works by Sophie Tiller and Katharina Manojlovic confront us with different images and representations of nature. By examining ideas of the “natural” and the “artificial”, they show once more how ambiguous these categories actually are.
Starting from the exploration of artificial flowers at cemeteries, the works of Katharina Manojlovic open up spaces of memory and examine the role of photography in their (re-)construction.

Surreal, staged scenarios form the basis of many of Sophie Tiller’s projects, which she has been developing over long periods of time. In her Better than Nature (2020) series, real plants enter into a symbiosis with artificial ones by using plastic plants as climbing aids.

Katharina Manojlovic, born 1980 in Vienna, where she works as a cultural scientist, curator and photographer. Numerous texts and publications on literature, art and photography. Selected exhibitions:Chlorophyllklangpulverstaub, Robert-Musil-Literatur-Museum Klagenfurt (2017); Remains of Light, Malzgasse 12a, eyes on – Monat der Fotografie Wien (2016); Pas de Deux, Kunst Haus Wien (2015); Folgendes, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (2015); 402–407, Parallel Vienna, Altes Zollamt, Wien (2014).

Sophie Tiller, born 1978 in Vienna. Studied photography at the University of Applied Arts under Erich Lessing and Gabriele Rothemann and at the University of Fine Arts under Eva Schlegel and Matthias Hermann. Selected exhibitions: 2019: COLLECT, SELECT, SAY GOOD-BYE, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin; 2018: Der Parasit, Lia Wolf Cabinett, Wien (solo); 2017: KUNST≠NATUR, aber, Kunsthaus Laa; 2016: Aneignung, eyes on - Monat der Fotografie, basement, Wien (solo); 2015: The Parasites, The Nordic House, Reykjavik (solo).