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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