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	Sissi Farassat

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Press Release

SISSI FARASSAT

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The most problematic game ist the one you play with the clichés. If you send postcards to yourself, you cannot be entirely in your right mind. Carrying around a picture of yourself means you must be a narcissistic. If you surround yourself with "glittery stuff", you may be presumed to be frivolous. Sissi Farassat, during a three month scholarship sojourn in New York 2003, jots down messages on a card each day, adds a small portrait, either of herself alone or with a second person, sometimes complementing it with cut-out shapes, such as a dress or a crown, sometimes adding to the postal stamp another one of her own devising - and mails the results off to her own addresses in Vienna or New York. She reports on everyday occurrences ("it´s such a rainy day") or her longing for home ("another 43 days yet"). These are stereotypical messages of the sort holidaymakers and travellers tend to send to the stay-at-homes.

Clichés are a net for SF into which she wraps whatever strikes her fancy. This wrapper is made up of rough stereotypes that leave a sufficient number gaps through which one may perceive what is hidden behind.