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ArchiveBorn 1978 in Unger, Austria
Margret Weber Unger juggles with reality and the surreal, her interest in the essence of collecting and sometimes absurd laws that govern it, are elements that also play a part in her recent work. Taking as her starting point three different ladybug collections found at Vienna`s Natural History Museum, Weber-Unger compiled a photographic study on the theme of collecting. Unlike the systematic collection and the collection still to be classified, the clearly ordered show collection, in which the ladybugs are presented according to number and shape of the dots, is completely unscientific. Weber-Unger photographed these varying forms of presentation (in which the laws of natural science that dictate their systematic organization are inscrutable for the layperon), in order to misschievously question their ordering principles.
 Margret Weber, "Coccinellidae inserenda - detreminanda", C-Print auf Dibond, 180 x 166 cm, 2005. |
