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BODY OF WORK: THEFT, 2018
In the spirit of the historical avant-garde, Dada stands for total doubt of everything, absolute individualism, and the destruction of established ideals and bourgeois norms. Regulatory frameworks determined by functionality, discipline, and social order are sabotaged by arbitrary, subversive actions. A profane traffic sign, ripped from its original urban context, abruptly loses all legitimizing authority.
The readymade here is not a stroke of artistic genius, but a shameless act of expropriation. The gesture of theft does not merely remove the object from traffic regulations, but transfers it directly into the exhibition space—an institution that itself thrives on appropriation and fictitious value creation. The sign becomes an ironic parody of property relations, bureaucratic steering, and the often laughable solemnity of the art world.
“Legitimizing the Offense in the White Cube”
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Titel: „Diebstahl“ | Jahr: 2018 | Format: 121×96 cm | Material: Aluminium-Verkehrsschild (Salzburg)
- 26.02.–03.03.2019
JUSTMAD (X Edition) Emerging Art Fair
Palacio Neptuno, Madrid (ES) - 07.12.–28.12.2018
panoptikum. WERKSCHAU 2018
offSpace | galerie panoptikum.
Ruderstallgassen 4, A-5133 Gilgenberg aW (OÖ)/AUT
Work note, Vienna, 2018:
“I can't stand the other artists!” “I can't stand the other artists!” “I can't stand the other women artists!” “I don't want to stand the other women artists!” “I don't like the other artists” “I can't stand the other artists!” “I'm supposed to not stand all artists!” “I will not stand the other women artists!” “I don't want to stand the other artists!” “I can't stand the other women artists!” “I'm supposed to not stand the other artists!” “I must not stand the other artists!” “I can't stand the other artists!” “I can't stand the other artists!” “I can't stand the other women artists either!” “I hate the other women artists!” “The women artists get on my nerves!”