Josephine Meckseper

Présentation
Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper

On the one hand, the pop-political vocabulary of forms appears absurd in its opposing ideological effect; on the other, the artist discloses references by interpolating them seamlessly in a decorative and apparently elegant display. Meckseper has pursued the capitalist-critique approach of recent years, with subject areas agitating around the war in Iraq and the oil industry, with all their inherent economic and socio-political implications, in particular those concerning the automobile industry.

The publication concentrates on a new series of works developed from this context. Hence in the installation « Ten High » (2007) numerous silver shop display dummies converge on a mirror smooth platform holding in their hands objects such as signs, bearing anti-war slogans like « No War in Iran » or the notorious recession signal « Going Out of Business/Sale, » a whisky bottle or a bible and other classical American « icons. » Meckseper’s object arrangements recall the window displays of department stores and expensive boutiques, re-contextualising the exhibited objects: the shibboleths are ascribed a new significance—from now on a consumerist lifestyle posture.