Peter Friedl's long-term project Theory of Justice was presented as part of the exhibition Peter Friedl: Work 1964–2006 (MACBA, 2006), in the form of an extensive installation and also an artist's book. For this project, Friedl began collecting and classifying images from newspapers and magazines in 1992, providing the viewer with a vision of social and political conflicts around the world.
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Peter Friedl was born in Oberneukirchen, Austria, in 1960, and currently lives and works in Berlin. Since the early nineties, he has been building up a heterogeneous body of work (photography, painting, video, drawing, text) with a strong component of social and political critique. Friedl draws attention to the conflicts between contemporary politics and aesthetic narrative. He often turns to genres (tableaux vivant, documents) and subject matter (childhood, social exclusion) that are undervalued in the modern artistic tradition, and uses displacement and overexposure to challenge accepted systems of representation. Friedl pushes the boundaries of genres and codes for purposes that are clearly critical. He is best known for the photographic works he produced in South Africa, Haiti, Brazil and other places that were the scenes of Europe’s colonial past, and for his work based on American philosopher John Rawls’ theory of justice. He has published numerous essays and critical texts on theatre and aesthetics.
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Peter Friedl: Theory of Justice. 1992–2006
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