While restoration work is in progress in spring 2019, the central tower of Vienna's City Hall is completely covered. This covering of the Vienna City Hall tower holds a unique opportunity for the city to send a strong signal to the world longterm. An oversized, almost 75-metre high sign under the motto "Vienna, an open city" will literally set a "landmark" and redefine the visual narrative of the city centre. The Rathausplatz has always been a place of encounter. One hundred years after the founding of the Republic, this central public square of the federal capital is to attract and inspire even more people. The "newly designed" town hall tower wants to emphasize this cosmopolitan attitude, to lead people to this place of peaceful togetherness and, as a benevolent patron, to frame all the events taking place there.

The town hall is one of the buildings on the Ringstrasse, which was built after the revolution of 1848 as a prestige project and a place of representation consisting of public and private buildings. The architecture of historicism is like a collage of various previous styles. What is striking here are representations of the human body that are inserted into the architecture.

These façade elements known since antiquity were the inspiration for this photographic work. In particular, the caryatid, a female figure with a supporting function in architecture. Usually, it is a young woman in light clothes, lifting the load with closed legs, reminiscent of a column. At the town hall, a woman stands wide-legged, self-confident and strong, carrying another woman on her shoulder, reenacting the town hall tower. The diversity of bodies is shown, accepted norms are broken. The red morphsuits make the bodies sculptural and anonymous.

The artists' aim is to position a humorous subject - as an alternative staging to contemporary currents in politics in which the community of solidarity is questioned in favour of a neoliberal, singularised social structure. Together we are stronger!

The work becomes queer through the very unusual depiction of a woman carrying another on her shoulders. At the same time, it refers to the 100 years of women's suffrage, as well as to the current debate regarding marriage for all.