We are pleased to present Anna Malagrida's exhibition Schaufenster, on November 18, 2011 at 7 pm.

In the series Schaufenster (Shop Windows) (2008 and 2009) Malagrida shows displays of Parisian shops, shot from the street. The windows, however, are whitened, obscured by reflections or ob­jects behind the windowpanes. The viewer's gaze is consequently blocked, it is not possible to look inside the stores. Malagrida has thus created a surface of projection for her com­po­sitions on the level of the windowpane. The frames of the windows are more or less congruent with the frames of the photographs and connect the view on the photograph with the view on the window. And they frame narrations as – for instance – in Rue de Charenton of 2008: the gaze of the viewer meanders continuously, guided by changing struc­tures in white and by objects behind the pane, objects that cannot be discerned and that – thus – become abstract areas that block the gaze, which is pushed back to the center by the (window-)frame being – again – part of the photograph. Anna Malagrida tests – there­by – the limits of the media. She finds a level where seemingly real things are melted with ob­jects of the image and is questioning the binding nature of reality, which is challenged by the imagination of the viewer.