Charlotte Eifler’s work combines moving images, extended reality, installation, and performance. Her artistic research is located at the intersection of digital culture, queerness, archival politics, and speculative futures. For her show in Munich, she revisits the topic of misdirection—a technique used to manipulate perception and visual memory that is also employed in magic, warfare, politics, and theft. Eifler’s “Troubled Fantômes” draws on the method to link instrumentalized magic and algorithmic prediction. She also transforms the Kunstraum into a combined museum, catwalk, and crime scene—a hybrid site where both visible and invisible traces of colonial collecting practices, issues of repatriation, and methods of technological deception converge.
The exhibition is curated by Lena von Geyso. “Troubled Fantômes” is supported by the Stiftung Stark für Gegenwartskunst, the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation, the District of Upper Bavaria, and the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. With the kind support of Haca Leitern.