Verena Hägler says that “Freie Redaktion is a photographic documentation of a workshop by artist Nora Schultz. It dealt with the process of art making, communication, surveillance and co-working in a collective ‘Freie Redaktion’ which existed for about 2 months in a specific room at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. My documentation was done on certain mornings in absence of all other persons, a surveillance of the room and its ongoing changes in my absence.“

Freie Redaktion presents Hägler’s photos as pure documentary, laying the images in a 4x4 grid, each labeled with the camera’s default filename: “MG0153.jpg,” “MG0154.jpg,” etc. Hägler’s photographs are spare and unemotional, but carefully composed. Though Freie Redaktion is a document of an art collective at work, there’s very little evidence of finished art. Instead, Hägler collects a lived-in space’s smaller changes: collections of bottles that grow and shrink, a handcart for moving boxes, shifting configurations of chairs and tables.