Jonas Höschl

In his search for belonging and community, Jonas Höschl encounters isolation and segregation. In his prints and video works, he questions the identity-creating potential of political systems and social constructs. Using regional political scandals and European conflicts, he shows the alienation from unifying ideals. The powerlessness of the individual and the power of the many create a field of tension, which is also the basis of media staging. Jonas Höschl appropriates the partly historical visual languages of differently oriented ideologies in order to reveal the propagandistic manipulation. Through recontextualization, he points to the referentiality of contemporary documents. Carina Essl (LEONARDO – Center for Creativity and Innovation)