“I wanted to show current stereotypes and role models, which are attributed to woman in our society and which I have always been confronted with as well, and to point out the misunderstandings of everyday life”
“I could quote a long list of reactions on the effectiveness of irony. ‘Woman and irony’ is still a taboo, just like ‘woman and humour’.
The price of an ironic gesture in the art world is to not be taken seriously for a long time. For me however, self-irony is an autobiographic strategy in order to communicate a subversive and deconstructive potential more easily”
Birgit Jürgenssen
Vienna, Austria, 1949 – Vienna, Austria, 2003