Hay Bales is a site-specific intervention in public space that brings agricultural materials, photographic representation, and urban institutions into tension. Three plastic-wrapped hay bales function as mobile, weather-resistant exhibition supports. Their cubic form refers to the Stall series, in which traditional barn structures are digitally reduced to geometric forms.

Referencing Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982), Hay Bales brings the rural into an urban context. Rather than focusing on agricultural production, the work uses hay as a carrier of images, meanings, and cultural projections. The plastic wrapping becomes an active image carrier, recalling rural practices in which hay bales serve as advertising surfaces.

Positioned between the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum and Foto Arsenal Wien, the bales mark a threshold between periphery and centre, nature and institution, everyday life and exhibition. They transform the site into a temporary zone of confrontation—material, quiet, and unmistakably present.