Investigation: 2×20

2024, site-specific project in the Red Carpet Award-showroom of Wiener Linien at the Karlsplatz, Vienna

In a mysterious way, a young female detective suddenly receives a series of 2×20 photographs. The images show scenes that correspond to the characteristic style of the scenes of a serial murder. Instead of corpses, however, the pictures present macabrely staged newspaper cadavers. What the policewoman initially thinks is a tasteless joke begins to preoccupy her more and more. The pictures come into her possession through various channels and she begins to record her thoughts and reflections on a pane of glass. Black and white images and the locations where the photos were found extend across the entire city.

What begins as simple documentation develops into an obsessive search for the unknown. The pictures seem to point to a dark path that draws the policewoman deeper into the abyss of a mystery that she cannot let go of – a captivating hunt for the unknown in which every lead raises new questions.

Photos: Manuela Picallo Gil