In her current work “Talk to me”, Anaïs Horn once again explores her recurring interest in mysterious memories dedicated to specific spaces and objects. A theft becomes the starting point. During a break-in in her apartment in Vienna, her grandmother’s jewelry is stolen. With the help of surviving personal photographs of the heirlooms, the artist attempts to explore the stolen, absent objects for herself. In photographic stagings, Anaïs Horn places herself in the pictures of the rooms her grandparents used to live in.
As different as the positions of Martin Essl and Anaïs Horn may appear, they are linked not least by a similarity of means. Both artists embark on a visual and poetic search for traces in private and public, intellectual and concrete spaces. Martin Essl finds enigmas in the urban scenes he visits, while Anaïs Horn explores them in her private cosmos.