THE CITY WITHOUT QUALITIES
Tracing the Lost or Last Mitteleuropean Archipelago
Trieste, 2023
The City Without Qualities is a fictional metropolis based on a real city where national claims, multicultural ties and divided loyalties overlap. Inspired by the novel „Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften“ by Robert Musil (1930), Wolfgang Lehrner traces the last or lost mitteleuropean archipelago and thereby generates „The City without Qualities“.
The City without Qualities finds it much easier to explain what it is not, what differentiates it from any other reality, than to define its own identity. The City Without Qualities loves its heterogeneity, its diversity of elements that cannot be merged into a unity. It is rich in contrasts,
but above all it seeks its reason of existence in these very contrasts
and in their indissolubility...
City Without Qualities, Image Series
Lost or Last, Image Series
City Without Qualities, Video, 11:15 Min.
Exhibition Views THE TALE OF TWO CITIES
Exhibition Views CITY WITHOUT QUALITIES
Essay by Lisa Moravec
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