Man to Man is a maze installation on imprisonment. The solo show at Galerie Charim featured also Cleanliness is Goodliness, an installation of hand-engraved soaps, each representing one person with his name and profession. 21 of them engraved with the Artist's name, their weight totalling that of her body fat, as well as Life Goes On, triptychs of reworked archival photographs from the time of the rise of totalitarianism.
The exhibition achieved critical acclaim:
"Janich works around materializing history and the everyday presence of products of national socialist atrocities, such as soaps from people's fat. In its simplicity the installation goes under the skin." (Der Standard, Vienna, AT)
"Fear turning into empathy and dismay - these are the feelings which Agnes Janich provokes without moralizing about looking and overcoming the past." (Falter, Vienna, AT)
"Her works are also a plea for the conscious perception of these criminal and inhuman acts without letting them become the generalizable case of brutal violence." (Kurt Kladler)
"Through the ferocious sound and imagery, we have become encased in the experience of Man’s inhumanity to Man. It has literally been implanted in us as an experience, soon to become a memory. (Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, PhD, Artforum art critic, New York, NY)
"making the heart beat faster – until, that is, reason kicks in." (Vienna Review, AT)
http://www.charimgalerie.at/rueckschau_wien_kuenstler_agnes_janich09.htm
https://artmap.com/charim/exhibition/agnes-janich-2009
https://derstandard.at/1256744074081/Geschichte-vergegenwaertigen
http://vienna.eventful.com/events/agnes-janich-man-man-galerie-charim-wien-/E0-001-024612583-2