Under Construction II
Veranstaltungsreihe auf der Baustelle:

Do, 13.12.2001, 19.00 Uhr
Elke Krystufek

2001-11-22

"Krystufek makes a totally exchangeable body of artwork"

You could mistake her work for any other easily. There´s nothing significant about it. It could be anyone´s work. It is also easy to imitate. It looks like it was bought in a supermarket. An expensive super market. Any political remarks in the work are drowned with dripping humor. Therefore it is completely free of any values, provocative exclamations or revolutionary potential. It is everyday work as long as there is no war. Expensive simple everyday labour. Why do we pay so much for it ? Because it is the missing part in our lives. Krystufek is an all time young. Never fashionable but just not aging - just like old furniture. It´s like we always had her. Sticking like chewing gum. To her famous New York Bubble Gum Video piece from 1992 we could hear the sound of Laurie Andersons "Oh Superman".

(text mailed von Elke Krystufek)

links:

Jan Verwoert: Intimitäten - über das alltägliche Geschäft der Selbstoffenbarung, S. 11-12. in: EIKON 26/27
Brigitte Huck, XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo
Stefan Beck: Elke Krystufek in der Secession Wien www.thing-frankfurt.de

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