Opening: Luise Marchand – Liquid Company

MQ Artist-in-Residence Luise Marchand
Liquid Company
Opening: Thu 05.09.2024, 19h
06.09. – 25.10.2024 | EIKON Schauraum | Free entry

It’s hard to picture Vienna’s cityscape without the so-called “rider”: on bicycles, e-scooters or motor scooters, in bright jackets and carrying square backpacks, they deliver meals, groceries or medicine to our doorsteps within minutes. They are emblematic of a time in which traditional work structures are subject to change and which is characterized by digitalization, globalization and the rise of new work models such as freelancing, crowdworking and platform economy.
For Liquid Company, Luise Marchand accompanies gig workers and invites us to critically reflect on the conditions of labor and economic pressure to which we are exposed in a world increasingly driven by consumerism and profit. Thus, the invisible costs of our daily demeanor are questioned and the burdens that weight on the shoulders of those who too often remain unseen are told—whether through precarious jobs or the exploitation of natural resources.
 
A main feature is dedicated to the artist in EIKON #127.
 
Luise Marchand, lives and works in Berlin. Master student of Peter Piller and Peggy Buth at the HGB Leipzig, graduation: 2019. In Marchand’s artistic practice, her experience as an advertising photographer merges with a deep interest in the social and economic processes of our time. She’s currently an Artist-in-Residence at MQ.

Photo: Exhibition view „Liquid Company - Flüssige Gesellschaft“, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, 2022 © Luise Marchand