Simona Reisch (AT) is an artist, photographer, graphic designer and art educator, based in
Vienna, Austria. Since 2013, after her studies of art and photography at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Vienna she is working as a freelancer in these different fields. Her works were exhibited in several countries. She received different grants and scholarships like the state grant from the Austrian ministry of culture in 2022. As an artist her focus lies in the field of photography combining this medium with several others like sculpture, installation, or video.
Simona Reisch: Architectural archive
Simona Reisch: Architectural archive
The motifs of Simona Reisch’ extracted photographs are segments of architecture. Steadily architecture is embedded in its surroundings, a result of physical, static and other occurrences. Thanks to photography and its necessity to choose partial details from a scene, the context of architectural buildings can be in- or excluded. Furthermore the author edits photographs manually to get rid of the normative format such as rectangle or square. This corresponds with the human view of architectural details as they are almost never seen in that accurate format except in the presentation of a model. Vanishing points from the human eye level are mostly not included in the process of creating a building. Years ago she started an archive with architectural detailed photographs she took. She categorized the pieces divided into different categories like colour, perspective, decay, etc. The starting point of her practices is to use her own architectural photographs from the archive as an analog, haptic material to create sculptural work combined with other materials such as aluminium or wood.
The motifs of Simona Reisch’ extracted photographs are segments of architecture. Steadily architecture is embedded in its surroundings, a result of physical, static and other occurrences. Thanks to photography and its necessity to choose partial details from a scene, the context of architectural buildings can be in- or excluded. Furthermore the author edits photographs manually to get rid of the normative format such as rectangle or square. This corresponds with the human view of architectural details as they are almost never seen in that accurate format except in the presentation of a model. Vanishing points from the human eye level are mostly not included in the process of creating a building. Years ago she started an archive with architectural detailed photographs she took. She categorized the pieces divided into different categories like colour, perspective, decay, etc. The starting point of her practices is to use her own architectural photographs from the archive as an analog, haptic material to create sculptural work combined with other materials such as aluminium or wood.