April 20 to May 5

Ernst Logar

Non Public Spaces

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“Non Public Spaces“ deals with spaces which are usually not open to ordinary citizens. These chosen places have a special political, economic or social significance. At first, these spaces seem irrelevant to our lives, but on closer inspection we become more conscious of their connection to our everyday life. They are an integral part of people’s lives and the state’s power to regulate them. The mapping of these places spans from the mortuaries of forensic medicine, archives which constitute state identity, central computer rooms where population related data are registered and processed, police arsenals securing the execution of state power, strong rooms to store state assets, art depots signifying cultural representation, scientific laboratories establishing and controlling elementary physical values, to news studios constituting interfaces to the public, and other significant places in state and global contexts.

“Non Public Spaces” is about the confrontation of the individual with apparatus of power and their institutions, and the individual’s continual effort to penetrate these spaces. Through diverse strategies and elaborate bureaucratic authorisation procedures an attempt is made to reach these places, to visually retain them and document the process of entering, using different media. These are spaces which constitute interfaces to the public while being physically exclusive due to their concentration of power.

An exhibition situation is created which shows the active working process of entering London’s media spaces on the one hand as well as photos and documents of the previous examination of non public spaces in Vienna, Paris and New York on the other.

Ernst Logar, born in 1965 in Klagenfurt, graduated from the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, worked for the Delfina Studio Trust London. Ernst Logar lives in Vienna. www.logar.co.at