The Vacuum Cleaner

At the centre of this series is the protagonist Olga, who deals with basic questions of existence in the living space made available to her. Olga is the common thread in this sequential work cycle, which Michaela Konrad weaves around existential questions and ties to references of the collective memory of a human race who experiences the greatest possible distance from the space traveler. It is precisely this spatial detachment in the realised fiction of space that allows Olga‘s philosophical thoughts to have an unmistakably vivid impact on the viewer, heightened by the clarity and colour intensity of the representations, reminiscent of pop art.