Laura Horelli's photo, text and video installations focus on communicative forms of relations in public, media and psychological spaces. The artist often links documentary material with her own pictures and information.

In her photo and video installation "You Go Where You're Sent" (2003) she outlines important moments in the life of her grandmother, born in 1916, who talks about her experiences as a diplomat's wife working as a physician at the same time. Horelli uses black-and-white as well as color documentary photographs and sequences from a conversation of the artist and her grandmother. "You Go Where You're Sent" is a portrait of historical interest, it traces the life of a woman living on the interface of the public and private spheres, seeking to reconcile her various roles and expectations about her.

Moreover, Laura Horelli's exhibition at the Galerie im Taxispalais includes an updated version of "Reconfiguration of the International Herald Tribune/03.06.00" (2000), titled "Rekonfiguration von Der Standard/04.06.04" in which the artist approaches the public/private issue from a different angle. On four days around the opening date, Horelli will prepare clippings from the Austrian daily Der Standard for this work, articles and illustrations that she personally considers important. She will then use the material for collages of four new, subjective "newspaper issues" which she juxtaposes with the originals. A variation on the theme of confronting medialized information on the one hand and a very personal view on the other is reflected in a video which forms part of the installation: the video shows the "Tagesschau", the newscasts of the first German public television broadcasting station ARD from the 4th of June in full length leaving away the sound. In its place texts spoken by three women can be heard voice over. A schoolgirl, a woman of thirty and of fifty talk about their run of the day, about events that they have experienced during the day and that have been important to them. These women live, like the artist herself, in Berlin and speak German as a second or third language.

Furthermore, Horelli presents a new project in the big hall in the gallery basement. It deals with the changes urban planning caused in a former industrial area of Berlin where several movie and TV studios, as well as production companies, such as Universal Studios and MTV, set up shop in the past few years. She will condense the results of her research in an installation of documents, pictures and texts in which she brings together a wide variety of narratives and views.

Laura Horelli's exhibition at the Galerie im Taxispalais is the Finnish artist's first solo show in Austria. She was born in Helsinki in 1976 and lives in Berlin.