Both works, Fen­ster (Win­dow) and Tep­pich (Car­pet), by Andreas Koch are frozen. They depict traces in a city’s exis­tence, in the life of one or more peo­ple. Sup­pos­ed­ly famil­iar things, the inter­face between inside and out­side, are strange­ly dis­tort­ed by this enlarge­ment. Even the uncan­ny view of an apart­ment from above, which could not pos­si­bly be pho­tographed in this way, changes the sup­posed famil­iar­i­ty of the inte­ri­ors. It turns the pri­vate into the pub­lic with­out the occu­pants’ knowl­edge. As spec­ta­tors, we take an observ­ing, a dis­tanc­ing posi­tion; strange­ly for­eign, sound­less, pas­sive, and entire­ly with­out par­tic­i­pa­tion. It is not long before this voyeuris­tic view of the lives of oth­ers becomes unpleas­ant. Quick, let’s get out of here and into the city!

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