Self-portraits under water, without make-up or clothes. Face and body become blurred, expression and posture are distorted by the movement generated in the water. An enraptured perspective on the self-portrait. Artist and viewer separated by a basic element. The sense of optically broken perception is mutual.

Exhibitions
Im Badehaus, Museum der Wahrnehmung, Graz (A), 1999
Portrait–Ditrait, Transmediale, Podewil, Zentrum für aktuelle Künste, Berlin 1999/2000, Podewil, Berlin (D)

Works in public spaces:
Wasserfest, 25 meter screen installation, competition work, Oberösterreichische Landes-Nervenklinik Wagner-Jauregg, Linz 2002

Editions:
Wasserfest Brosche, Artikel Editionen
Wasserfest (1–75), artist broach in glycerine soap

Publication:
Irene Andessner: Im Badehaus, folder, edited by Werner Wolf, Museum der Wahrnehmung, Graz 1999

Public collection:
Wasserfest, light box, Volpinum, Vienna

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