"Normative body" 2002
 
Katya Sander Denmark
Born 1970
The Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, 1999-2000 The Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Copenhagen: Department for Media Art, 1994-1999, The Royal Academy for Fine Arts: School of Architecture, 1992-1994, University of Copenhagen Literature & Cultural Studies 1990-1997
 
   

Sander's artistry has revolved around the private/ public, the "other" and in her artworks she repeatedly work with the suburb, language, identity in relation to the consumption-society. Her works often has an interactive character.

Normative body
The relationship between late capitalism, language and desire is not only outside us, detached and isolated in global companies, in labour exploitation or in the third-world produced luxury consumer goods. It is an economic logic, which lives in our nervous systems, that breeds in our fantasies and feeds on our desire to posses and our fear of loosing or wanting. And one wants. Economy is more than money, it is the exchange of labour, faces, images, words, knowledge, power, travel, sex, escapes, traps, hunts. The images surrounding us and addressing us most intimately. The ones that tells us that they know us the best and that they are able to articulate our most hidden desires are the ones in the public spaces, the ones that help us need what we buy. They are images which speaks to our open minds, but to which we are denied access. After this image, there is nothing else but a little price tag, he indexes of exchangeability. It is nothing, it is enormous, and it is something else. One does not dream, one is dreamed of, silence.
 
 




"Everything in capitalism" 2002