Anna Zwingl: She lives in her phone (Haus R.)

Anna Zwingl: She lives in her phone (Haus R.)

Anna Zwingl describes She lives in her phone (Haus R.) as an intervention that refers to the perspective in which BUWOG headquarters encounters viewers en passant and conceives of them as a stage or screen on which the history of housing is shown. Hietzing is the historically evolved space located directly behind the BUWOG Customer and Administrative Centre and in which palaces meet upper middle-class villas, housing estates, municipal buildings and architectural icons of modernism. Such as Adolf Loos’ “Rufer House”, which the artist mimics in the central picture with a hand gesture, adds a new periphery and overlays with subjects that associatively symbolise an interiority. What appear to be schematic brushstrokes are traces we leave behind thousands of times a day on our smartphone, a device that – like a dwelling – carries much of our lives within it.