/internal/media/dispatcher/137504/fullWayside House2019/2021[Lois Weinberger]Lois WeinbergerPainted metal, printed text on paper, stamp, ink padLois Weinberger’s art is characterized by his belief in the power of inverting the relationship between humans and nature. Is it coexistence, interaction, or in fact a system of dominance and oppression? Weinberger encountered wayside houses in Greece, where—comparable to wayside crosses here in Austria—they are not only memorials to accident victims, but also places where items are left for passers-by. Painted red, the Wayside House that now stands at the bottom of the ramp is dedicated to the poppy. The artist has equipped it with poems printed on sheets that visitors can stamp with a motif—based on the feeding tunnels of bark beetles— and take home with them. This could be seen as an allusion to hiking passbooks in which stamps from mountain cabins document distances covered.Object art© Lois Weinbergerhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/93222/rdf