Making Love to Unknown Cities
Archaeological Investigations With Uncertain Outcomes.In her conceptual drawings and multimedia installations, Katrin Str bel (born 1975 in Pforzheim; lives and works in Marseille, Stuttgart, and…
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Archaeological Investigations With Uncertain Outcomes.In her conceptual drawings and multimedia installations, Katrin Str bel (born 1975 in Pforzheim; lives and works in Marseille, Stuttgart, and Rabat) questions the social and geopolitical realities of the present with a simultaneously playful and critical eye. Her archaeology of everyday life pursues the political as decidedly as modern representations of the female body or practices of cultural appropriation - but also focuses on more private spaces, design objects, and interiors, such as the wallpaper in the studio of the Italian avant-garde artist Dadamaino. The astute negotiation of colonized bodies, spaces, and objects interspersed with cultural codes is reminiscent of Hanna H ch's early collages. Str bel lends them her contemporary voice: from the design classic Eames to current gender images to compendia of modern