Works


Extinction Ballads
2021“The digital works include found-footage footage of recently extinct or endangered plants. Michaela Putz translates the evidence of former diversity into a transfiguring baroque aesthetic, interrupted only by the smudgy traces of the often inconsequential scrolling we find on our tablets and smartphones. In the work, the artist refers to a conspicuously invasive-destructive element of human action as well as to the increasingly evident futility of fleeting ‘gestures’.” ( from a text by Esther Mlenek)
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LETHE
2020The works from the series LETHE are constructed objects of photographic memories. Digitally documented pieces of porcelain figurines, glass and other objects were rebuilt and shaped into new pieces with a life and history of their own.
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Stained Landscapes
2017While the romantic scenery of this park in Vienna was reflecting on the surface on my smartphone, I recreated this process by taking pictures of the landscape mirroring on the screen. The stains I had left on my screen, due to touching it, change the scenery and give it a washed out look. The picture doesn’t look as perfect like all the images that we see on Instagram since the messiness and the dirt of our bodies interfere with this approached perfection.
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LINDA
2017What if we could swipe through our personal memories like we do with the pictures on our smartphones? Could we bring people back and swipe them away again? Gestures that are related to the use of our smartphones, such as the scrolling through images, have been re-enacted with color on these analog photographs from my private archive. They show a skiing vacation with a lost friend of mine. Volatile gestures become visibly documented. Do people disappear behind the traces we leave on them?


