I met the architect Günther Domenig by chance on his building site in 1989. Shortly after reading a magazine article about his eccentric building, I spontaneously decided to drop by out of curiosity, without making an appointment. We got talking and he showed me around the concrete sculpture. I started to expose a few color films with my Nikon under his eyes. He made fun of the minimalism of my equipment, but I should send photos... – From then on, I accompanied the stone house for about four years until 1994 as the building-shell progressed. Photos of this work were first published in 1991 in the Japanese magazine AtU ("Architecture and Urbanism", No. 254), and further publications followed. 

During a retrospective research into the photographs taken at the time, l decided in 2023, in collaboration with the Fotohof archive, to re-edit the photographic material. In keeping with the provocative subject matter and its own visual effects, a new selection was scanned from the original negatives and printed in a small edition in black and white on matte paper. In contrast to my long-standing practice of color photography, this resulted in a group of monochrome works, formally characterized by perspective and detail. 

The works will be shown at Fotohof, Salzburg, in October 2024