one pic thursday. Kate Cooper

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Care Work, 2015

image courtesy of the artist and Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin

This work was made by KATE COOPER specifically for Der Würfel, the 80 cm cubed project space at Neumeister Bar-Am in Berlin and it’s called Care Work (2015).

As with much of Rigged, KATE COOPER’s recent exhibition at KW in Berlin,  this piece, featuring a delicate portrait of computer-generated female model, stresses the visual strategies of commercial brands and thus explores the misrepresentations we encounter in many forms everyday, but also questions the hierarchy of consumerism and art.

In all images, particularly of women, there’s a relationship to desire, and within that a real violence; especially within these CG images. Still, I feel like there must be a way to negotiate these worlds, explore their potential, and make them one’s own. It’s not about reclaiming the world or aesthetics of hypercapitalism, but about occupying or invading it. I find that an interesting proposition to myself as an artist. Maybe there’s a freedom in the things that are supposed to restrict us. – KATE COOPER in conversation with JEPPE UGELVIG for Dis Magazine

Care Work is on view at Der Würfel at Neumeister Bar-Am in Berlin until June 27, 2015.

 



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