In his videos and photographic works, Niklas Goldbach is focusing on the dystopic elements of the postmodern urban experience. He is working with architectural elements to produce the ambiguity of reality Foucault conjured in his text "Of Other Spaces" – spaces that are waiting to be re-defined.
Working between reality and fiction, the uncomfortable familiarness of the utopic architecture presented in Goldbach's Untitled (Building Series) (2008) is intended: the imaginary high-rises are based on photographs taken from real existing hotels and apartment buildings in the holiday resort Benidorm, Spain. Referring to real existing contemporary architecture, these 'unaccessible and nostalgic buildings' (Goldbach) question the role of the individual in an ever increasing homogenized world.
