In a new exhibition, ‘Unseen Places’ at Kunst Haus Wien, Gregor Sailer looks back at 20 years of working in inaccessible landscapes, sealed-off territories and restricted military areas
highlights artificially created urban zones hermetically sealed off from the outside world,deals with the economic exploitation of the Arctic regions. Enduring snow storms and minus 50°C temperatures for over four years, Sailer documented research stations and oil platforms, but also the silent arms race in the neighbouring countries, making the global power struggle for the Arctic economic area tangible.
Sailer describes his curiosity in capturing the structural transformation of the landscape and the complex political, military and economic implications of architecture: ‘I’m much more interested in transporting substantial content via architectural objects than I am in showing people,’ Sailer’s father worked as an architect, offering him formative access and sensitisation to architecture, space, spatial effects, and the context of light and landscape from an early age, and now form the...
Alluding to the austere eeriness in his images, curator Kaspar-Eisert comments: ‘Gregor Sailer is not an artist who makes it easy for his audience. He challenges because his work is so concentrated and precise... Sailer doesn’t allow you to look the other way.’ §
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