Tanja Widmann
Lying Daughters dreht sich um das Falsche im Sinne des Fragwürdigen. Der Ausgangspunkt ist einfach: Sind es die falschen oder richtigen Bilder oder sind es einfach nur Bilder, sind die Bilder einfach nur da? Ist es nichts weiter als das: falsche Zeichnung, falsche Bilder, falsches Setting, falsche Kunst? Oder aber: Der unauflösbare Rest steht der Möglichkeit, einfach nur falsch zu sein, gegenüber. Das bietet die Gelegenheit der Fabrikation. Every word she writes is a lie, even “and” and “but.”
Lying Daughters revolves around the false in the sense of the questionable. The starting point is simple: is it the wrong or right image, or is it just an image, are the images just there? Is it nothing more than that: wrong drawing, wrong images, wrong setting, wrong art? Or else: the irresolvable remainder faces the possibility of just being wrong. This opens up the opportunity to fabricate. Every word she writes is a lie, even “and” and “but.”

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Flicker), Samples from: Copi, La puissance ou la jouissance. Félix Guattari (Ed.), Recherche, 3 milliards des perverts. Grande encyclopédie des homosexualités, March 1973, 2023, Video, b&w, no sound, Loop, Ed. 2 + 1 AP

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Flicker), Samples from: Copi, La puissance ou la jouissance. Félix Guattari (Ed.), Recherche, 3 milliards des perverts. Grande encyclopédie des homosexualités, March 1973, 2023, Video, b&w, no sound, Loop, Ed. 2 + 1 AP
Tanja Widmann, Excerpt from Simple Lines (Flicker), Samples from: Copi, La puissance ou la jouissance. Félix Guattari (Ed.), Recherche, 3 milliards des perverts. Grande encyclopédie des homosexualités, March 1973, from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Video, b&w, no sound, Loop, Ed. 2 + 1 AP

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Girlfriends), from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Inkjetprints, graphite, pink masking tape on cardboard, 100 × 80 cm (39.370 × 31.496 in), framed

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Girlfriends), from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Inkjetprints, graphite, pink masking tape on cardboard, 100 × 80 cm (39.370 × 31.496 in), framed

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Girlfriends), from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023 (Detail), Inkjetprints, graphite, pink masking tape on cardboard, 100 × 80 cm (39.370 × 31.496 in), framed

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Girlfriends), from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Inkjetprints, graphite, pink masking tape on cardboard, 100 × 80 cm (39.370 × 31.496 in), framed

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Common Trumpet Creeper), from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Inkjetprint, Perspexbox, 34.5 × 25 × 2,5 cm (13,582 × 9,842 × 0.984 in)

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Decor), from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Tape on mirror tile on natural chipboard, 30 × 100 × 1,9 cm (11.811 × 39.370 × 0.748 in)

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Decor), 2023, Tape on mirror tile on natural chipboard, 30 × 100 × 1,9 cm (11.811 × 39.370 × 0.748 in)

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Decor), 2023 (Detail), Tape on mirror tile on natural chipboard, 30 × 100 × 1,9 cm (11.811 × 39.370 × 0.748 in)

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Decor), 2023, Tape on mirror tile on natural chipboard, 15 × 97 × 1,9 cm (5.905 × 38.188 × 0.748 in)

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Decor), 2023, Tape on mirror tile on natural chipboard, 15 × 97 × 1,9 cm (5.905 × 38.188 × 0.748 in)

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Decor), 2023, Tape on mirror tile on natural chipboard, 15 × 97 × 1,9 cm (5.905 × 38.188 × 0.748 in)

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Decor), 2023 (Detail), Tape on mirror tile on natural chipboard, 15 × 97 × 1,9 cm (5.905 × 38.188 × 0.748 in)

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Profile), 20.6.2023, from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Wall drawing, graphite on emulsion paint, masking tape pink, Dimensions variable

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Profile), 20.6.2023, 2023 (Detail), Wall drawing, graphite on emulsion paint, masking tape pink, Dimensions variable

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Profile), 20.6.2023, 2023 (Detail), Wall drawing, graphite on emulsion paint, masking tape pink, Dimensions variable

Tanja Widmann, Lying Daughters, Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Installation view, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna

Tanja Widmann, Simple Lines (Daddy), 20. – 25. 12. 1961, from the series Lying Daughters. Produced by Johannes Porsch, 2023, Inkjetprint, Perspexbox, 31 × 23 × 2,5 cm (12.204 × 9.055 × 0.984 in)
Photography: kunst-dokumentation.com