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Virtual Interior MoMA white

Annett Zinsmeister
German, born 1967
2007/2015
Annett Zinsmeister's photographic installation covers the gallery in repeating images of a prefab apartment façade, transforming the room into a 'virtual' interior that probes standardized housing and anonymous domestic life.
What hits you first is the disorienting regularity: every surface—walls, floor, ceiling—is a tiled grid of identical windows so the space reads like a model of mass housing that is simultaneously fabricated and eerily familiar.
By importing a photographed façade into the museum, the work links photography and architecture to critique how images shape our sense of home and to make visible the homogenizing, social effects of modern mass housing.
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Photographic installation
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Committee on Architecture and Design Funds
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91.2015.2
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