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Known through her large-sized tapestries, Margret Eicher's works combine traditional media and contemporary image contents and create a dialogue between them.

In the process of image construction, the artists draws on topics as divers as art history, current political affairs, life style magazines, advertisement and science fiction. She digitizes these found image materials and pieces them together to large-sized media montages. These montages are then transfered onto seemingly traditional forms such as tapestry, painting or water colour using digital weaving and printing techniques.

A combination of historical and contemporary references, Margret Eicher's works manage to irritate cognitive habits and the mind set of their viewer. At first sight, traditional media suggests authenticity and the creation of a traditionally working artist. At closer inspection nevertheless, their constructed character reveals itself, presenting motives that question information society as well as our approach to visual media in general. The image contents which are taken from political and social agendas, portraits of prominent or virtual personalities, but also science fiction, computer games or historical paintings seem to oppose the context of their technical realisation. And excactly here lies the artifice of Marget Eicher's practice, she challenges her audience to scrutinise what they see.