Monica Supé ART Habens them .
But back to “ Kulturlandschaft ”. You can look at it as a reference to the problematic nature of economic mechanism . In 2015 I installed it once more and I could get to the heart of it by asking : IN AUREA AETATE ? Do we live in the golden age ? Probably we can answer that in the future , looking back to the past . Nowadays we live in abundance , the grain price on the world market decreases continuously . Food is disposed of to stabilize prices , meanwhile in other regions people die of hunger . Rich countries pursue land crabbing in order to save the grain and food production for the future but only for their own population . Considering this it ’ s my aim to ask questions and initiate reflection , though the object I show can still be beautiful . My work shall be thoughtprovoking but things do not have to be shown the hard way .
That ’ s a difficult subject and it results from the last point . The motivation of the artist doesn ’ t necessarily need to be related to a functional aspect of art for society and audience . It only has to be discussed if works are shown in the public . But first of all everything I do and produce is its own purpose . I like to experiment and while working I can re-
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