The 23rd edition of GARAGE EXCHANGE VIENNA – LOS ANGELES features new works from Vienna- and Berlin based artist Kathi Hofer, who provides insight into her ongoing investigation of “Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village,” built by Tressa Prisbrey (1896–1988) between 1956 and 1972 in Simi Valley located northwest of Los Angeles. Like much of Los Angeles‘ “architecture without architects,” Bottle Village is constructed with “neither model nor plan,” built with the material at hand: in this case discarded bottles and other throwaway materials gleaned from the local landfill. Kathi Hofer works with forms of everyday creativity, observing change in their meaning and value when they are repurposed within her installations.