Natascha Niederstrass
Incursione clandestina, 2020, de la série Ruinenlust, 2024.
Photo : permission de l’artiste
Natascha Niederstrass Incursione clandestina, 2020, from the series Ruinenlust, 2024.
Photo: courtesy of the artist

For several years, Natascha Niederstrass has been exploring the imaginary limits of both scholarly and popular culture. She has delved into, among others, fantasies connected with illness and death, as well our fascination with necropolises and ruins, which attest to the inevitable impermanence of bodies and systems.

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