CORNELIA MITTENDORFER
Cornelia Mittendorfer (*1953 in Gmunden, AT) lives and works as a visual artist and lawyer in Vienna. She lived in Rome for seven years and made study trips to the Middle East, SE Asia and Africa. She works across disciplines and media, partly in long-term research projects. The principle of dual analytical and poetic approaches runs through her work. Core element of her work is the exploration of the condition humaine, either by training her own perception or by dealing with political-historical subjects. Mittendorfer uses scientific tools to establish and prepare her artistic concepts, for example in the interdisciplinary work Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter about memory, commemoration and possible forms for this. In green line_evocative of an archeology of desperation and desire, she deals with questions of perception and the depictability of traumatic events using the example of Cyprus. The further development of this work in a loop, a line, a limbo deals with the creation of a space beyond memory. wissen.sapere is a photo essay about worlds of knowledge and memory in Rome between documentary and fiction. She is particularly interested in spaces and their role in the imaginary. She sees her photographs as a questioning of the ambivalence of photographic representation and, on the level of action, as a social process.
