Grosse Weisse Blase (2018) is a collage consisting of many small speech bubbles from a range of comics. The text is painted over in colour and the corresponding pictures are missing altogether. Removed from their context and devoid of content, only the shape of the outer lines refers to the origin of the bubbles in the comic book. Squashed together and re-arranged, they now give shape to an oversize giant bubble that generates new room for thought through the uncompromising reduction of text and image. In this way, Alex Lieber brings about a shift in the rhetorical message: “These aren’t stories of superheroes. The protagonists are form, shape, and fragment."

— Magdalena Koschat