Dorit Margreiter’s “Short Hills” is research into identity, personal history and society-specific forms of behaviour. The work group contains a multi-part, photographic examination of the home of Sandra and Melissa Chang – the artist’s aunt and her cousin – in the USA, as well as a film statement about their leisure-time activity. Fiction from TV series (Heroes) and the film environment is mixed with the reality of the persons portrayed and their domestic surroundings. A screening of the film Short Hills in 1999 is the starting point for Short Hills Revisited. Once again, the house becomes a film set and the young woman a star. The reflection on what is lived, spoken and seen (again) becomes a meta-level which can also be experienced by the viewer. Dorit Magreiter succeeds in providing us with insight into the complex structures of places, personalities and cultural contents, and facilitates the discovery of new worlds without transgressing the borders of intimacy.

Heike Maier, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)