Geneva – Architecture of Memories: Group Show

In distinct yet resonant ways, Frieske and Nussbaumer examine how images construct, archive, and transform memory within contemporary visual culture.

Alina Frieske interrogates the landscape of digital image production through collage. Drawing from fragments of online imagery: selfies, captions, and social media posts gathered from an anonymous multitude, she composes imagined portraits and composite scenes that blur authorship and identity. Her works expose the mechanisms of visual consumption in an era where the self is continuously performed, curated, and archived. Between individuality and collective representation, visibility and disappearance, Frieske’s compositions function as mirrors of the digital condition: images embedded within images, identities displayed even as they dissolve.

Tobias Nussbaumer works at the intersection of memory, drawing, architecture, and digital technology. Beginning with fragments from his personal archive, he constructs virtual spaces through animation software and machine learning, which he then translates into meticulous hand-drawn works in pencil and ink. His layered environments unfold as visual mise en abyme, architectural references folding into one another, spaces nested within spaces, where perception becomes unstable and memory recursive. Through intricate networks of lines and silhouettes, Nussbaumer reveals the subtle structures through which images are internalized and reproduced.

Together, Frieske and Nussbaumer create complex visual architectures in which fragments of the visible and invisible collide. Architecture of Memories explores how images shape our understanding of space, identity, and recollection, uncovering the hidden repetitions, shadows, and frameworks that underlie contemporary visual experience.