Mirjam Reiter

Image from “Home story” project by Mirjam Reiter

Biography

Website: https://mirjamreiter.cargo.site/

Instagram: @mirjamreiter

Mirjam Reiter (*1998) grew up in rural Upper Austria; she now lives and works in Vienna. She is currently studying Applied Photography and Time-Based Media at the University of Applied Arts. In her photographic and video-based works, she addresses hidden violence and its consequences, while exploring memories, especially those that are kept secret or are difficult to articulate.

The project

I always felt something’s hiding inside of me.

I couldn’t locate it. 

I couldn’t talk about it.

Before I could decipher its meaning, the images emerged.

Through a combination of documented and staged photographs fragmented, violent stories are told of a place that actually promises safety: our home. It’s difficult to translate trauma into our lived reality. In a patriarchal world, experiences of domestic violence shatter into unspeakable individual cases, but that seems to change right now. For behind individual stories is always a system that profits from silence. And the more we talk about it, the clearer it becomes.

Image from “Home story” project by Mirjam Reiter

Image from “Home story” project by Mirjam Reiter