Austrian-born Pamminger is an astute social critic. He takes stills from television broadcasts and multiplies the images into dense, dizzying patterns. “War Strategies” for example contains endless, wallpaperlike glimpses of U.S. troops deploying on a desert strip, as seen over the socks-clad feet of a TV viewer. It’s a visual play on the intense media blitz we experience daily. The effect is to lessen the impact of each event and to minimize the importance of each individual action. We become hardened to the grim news, ignoring the white noise as if it were, well, just another piece of wallpaper.
(Joanne Milani)

 

Associated texts:
Die Welt ist ein globales Wohnzimmer (by Claudia Aigner)
Evil Patterns (by Joanne Milani)

Everyday patterns. – Mustergültige Rapporte. (by Nicola Hirner)