Peter Friedl’s work addresses the conditions of representation, historiography and the political function of images.

Across photography, video, installation, text and drawing, the practice systematically questions documentary conventions and exposes their ideological framing.

Recurring concerns include the construction of historical narratives, mechanisms of visibility and the instability of documentary evidence. Images, objects and texts are frequently displaced into new contexts, revealing how meaning is produced through cultural, institutional and political structures rather than inherent visual qualities.

The accompanying essays situate this body of work within broader debates on image politics, memory and institutional critique, framing it as a sustained inquiry into the relationship between visual production, knowledge systems and social reality.