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Sibylle Feucht (*1968, Kaufbeuren, Germany) is an artist who works in a variety of media (installation, photography, video installation), developing with surprisingly simple materials well-designed installations with universal symbol contents. This applies above all to her wall installations created from plastic beads that are melted together. She is applying methods borrowed from science, like isolating, collecting and comparing, through which the ambiguity and origination via retakes, repetitions and variations are examined. Her work references post-colonial theory, the avant-garde as well as the post-modern movement as a form of resistance against the logic of societies and the capitalist market systems. Since quite some time, she devotes her photographic work to themes that focus on the social and architectural outcomes, reflecting economic shifts in a globalized world, where everything is in exchange with the rest of the world and change the only constant. Her reality oriented, but still poetical work is telling critically but non-polemically about keenly observed day-to-day events and time phenomena’s, about new, daily changing, endlessly growing industrial sites, and about the interaction between society and built structures in remote countries (South Africa, China) – but not only, like the photographic work fire to the borders from 2016, created in Greece, demonstrates impressively. In her wall installations she works only with found footage as a base material, that she collects from newspapers or searches for in the WWW. Through isolating one aspect of the press images she creates iconic images that are liberated from the narrow time and space bound perception of their origin. By that means her works are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas, to question them and to open up possibilities for re-evaluation and new interpretation. With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, it is