The work of Angela Murr concerns itself with the identity of human individual seen through the effect it has upon its surroundings, as if the individual were traceable through the trails it leaves. The remnants of existence as a comment on the tendencies of that individual, & collectively how they change the face of the landscape. The work is not specific in a psychological way, but goes rather for the phenomenon of identity, the outer sign of specific. A model she made to embody such an imprint of personal identity consists of giant finger print (ca. 3 metres in diameter). This was an exact ?translation?, enlargement of real fingerprint made out of modelled earth presented on the floor, as if on the surface of the world, translated into artistic terms (through massive enlargement) & yet put back into the organic world through the use of earth. As if ?Art? were just a process it passed through. A collective fingerprint. Important in her works are also archives of routes taken, of pathways, which are symbolic of pathways through life, her chosen ways, whereby the personal is transcended into the universal, she treats herself as an example of humanity. These pathways, presented in photographic & video form, become in her work an element of structural coherence.

 

Chris Newman, Sommer 2002