objects | depictions

AIR Bormes. Cactuses

The photographic and video series feature impressions of various cactus species. AIR Bormes. Cactuses is part of the artistic research project Flourishing.

AIR Bormes. Blossoms

AIR Bormes. Blossoms consists of photographic and [looping] microfilm series. AIR Bormes. Blossoms is part of the artistic research project Flourishing.

AIR Bormes. Bushes and Trees

AIR Bormes. Bushes and Trees consists of a digital or print arrangement of individual photographs and [looping] microfilms, as well as photo and video series, each of which bears its own title. The series feature green flourishing and are part of the artistic research project Flourishing.

A Glass of Water

The photography A Glass of Water is part of the artistic research project Flourishing (2026–) investigating known and unknown options for creating a future in the here and now which hold potential to enable flourishing in the face of the diverse challenges of global life, which is characterized more by irritating fragmentation than by inventive responsibility for global abundance.

The Bath Series

Documentation of an attempt of infrastructural rehabilitation, organized in a claim to self-optimization … In progress

Chronology of a Love or A Farewell in Less Than Monthly Repeats

A letter to and for you and to and for me 
dated January 31, 2025, with additions from February

Stumbling Waters

Under the meta-theme of the transience of phenomena, the photo series Stumbling Waters refers to manifestations of destruction, whether in nature or in a metaphorical reference to global social developments that transform a peaceful flow of life into turbulent upheavals; which have consequences, leave traces and thus change a “world.”

SP19-22-personal shade

Photo series consisting of five variations of a self-portrait focusing on shadows, duplicated

SP19-22-La petite étoile – une épicerie

Image montage of four self-portraits, created in the reflection of the shop window of a small grocery store called La petite étoile

SP19-22-Self-mirroring in front of wood, stone and marble

Photo series of self-mirroring in front of parts of dark wood, round wall column and marble paneling

SP19-22-body movements in time

Series of 25 photo montages, developed from a row of flawed self-portraits, created by chance and in serial order; showing the movements of a body from an abstract perspective in time

SP19-22-fades

Series of 64 photographic self-portraits with a bag in motion, taken at random, forming a chronological series of abstracts …

SP19-22-movements of skin I / II

Two series of 18 / ten photos depicting close ups of skin in movement, taken at random in a serial order and letting the artist Alexandra Reill look at herself from an abstracting perspective …

Cable fades

Chronologically arranged series of the moving capture of a power cable, consisting of three randomly taken photographic shots

An artist’s work record in units of 15 minutes

Documentation of an artist’s working hours, shown over a year and compared to the conditions defined in Austrian labour law according to the collective agreement for a full-time employee working in office management

SP-QU03_2019-QU04_2022

[Moving] image sequence of hundreds of self-portraits and their image edits, arranged chronologically according to the time of digital recording between the quarters 03/2019 and 04/2022.

Photographic notes QU03_2019-QU04_2022

[Moving] images sequence of hundreds of photographic notes – everyday shots of individually experienced moments; arranged in chronological order, according to the time of digital recording between the quarters 03/2019 and 04/2022.

C-19-Object Series – Coll chiné

Textile installation, consisting of a defective house vest, a sloppily worked hood and a black plastic coat hook

C-19-Object Series – The Baby Blanket and The House Cushion

Two knitted textile objects created in autumn 2021 and the lockdown winter of 2021 / 2022

The Yale Rewirement Notebooks I and II

Notebook objects on the basis of the implementation of mental training exercises and tracking results of the efforts to improve one‘s well-being