1990
Hannah Villiger
Block XX
Hannah Villiger
Block XX, 1990
6 C-prints, 255 x 379 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
2005-002-001
© Estate of Hannah Villiger
Block XX, 1990
6 C-prints, 255 x 379 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
2005-002-001
© Estate of Hannah Villiger
1951 (Cham, CH) – 1997 (Auw, CH)
Villiger’s detailed Polaroids of her own body became the benchmark for all later artists in the field. Hers is a photography of almost unbearable self-scrutiny: examining, dissecting, ragmenting and juxtaposing individual, harshly-cropped details of a physical landscape. Her work combines painterly and sculptural elements in a photo-performance that tells of the struggle to forge a sense of wholeness out of the fragments of a physical identity that is both self and other.