| Dates: | born 1947
| | Biography: | 1947 Born in Zug, Switzerland.
Lives and works in Richterswil and
Melide, Switzerland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago. Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1998 Thread Waxing Space, New York
Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig
European Museum of Photographie,
Paris The Photographer's Gallery, London
1996 Kunstverein, Dusseldorf
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998 Swiss Contemporary Art
Exhibition, Seoul
1997 Antechamber, Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London
1995 Surroundings, Museum
Fridericianum, Kassel
1994 The Epic + The Everyday:
Contemporary Photographic Art,
Hayward Gallery, London
1992 The Boundary Rider: 9th Biennale
of Sydney, Sydney
FURTHER READING
Surroundings, Museum Fridericianum,
Kassel 1996 | | | Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1999 |
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| | Description: | Annelies Štrba combines personal and
cultural memories using photographs,
film and sound. The qualities she
exploits in these media are calculated to
appeal to the viewer's own associations.
Much of her material is drawn from her
immediate environment, including
documentation of her children and, more
recently, her grandchild growing up.
These images are manipulated to create
a specific ambience. In recent works
Štrba has projected the photographs in
audiovisual displays that suggest a
temporal sequence or a private history
set alongside a more public or cultural
context.
In the Tate she has created a two room
projection. In one room, six slide
projections of Celtic crosses create a
heavy, funereal atmosphere. A projected
video image of a dancing woman weaves
between the crosses to a soundtrack the
artist describes as "dark, like the earth."
In contrast, the other room is a 'light'
room, in which projected images of
Štrba's grandchildren appear against a
video projection of the New York skyline.
The sound, too, is light and optimistic,
and the images have been processed in
a very high key to produce a luminous
atmosphere.
| | Description Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 1999 | | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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