ABR - Archiv Beider Richtungen (eng: Archive of Both Directions) works with objects, stagings, texts in intermediate areas of designed ordinariness and art. The focus is on an aesthetic of showing that largely takes back the traditional concept of creativity. The non-artistic is brought into focus and ennobled as a value in its own right. This happens through a contextual integration, which is to be understood as a process of reinterpretation of the self-evident aspects of the concept of art. In this, one can see an affront to the concept of autonomy that fundamentally defines Western art. Passing through art as art, the aesthetics of the sign approaches an insertion into everyday life, which is reformulated through it.
What is striking for ABR, looking at today's manifestations of the aesthetics of showing, is that the programmatic attempts to connect art and everyday life, as demanded by the Bauhaus in the 20th century, for example, are hardly continued. The impression arises as if the intended intermediate forms are to emerge from below, as it were, through an action that refers to a more or less closed meta-theory. The meaning of the aesthetics of showing is thereby transferred to the responsibility of the viewer.