Anne Katrine Senstad
How We Live Together, 2018
Wood, brushed brass aluminum
35 x 38 x 1/2 in
88.9 x 96.5 x 1.3 cm
88.9 x 96.5 x 1.3 cm
Edition of 3
AKS0060
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How We Live Together, is a staple of the artist’s decades-long preoccupation with text displacement and the re-authoring of philosophical statements. The brushed gold, aluminium signage piece evokes public and...
How We Live Together, is a staple of the artist’s decades-long preoccupation with text displacement and the re-authoring of philosophical statements. The brushed gold, aluminium signage piece evokes public and private postmodern aesthetics of corporatism and the politics of financial power and wealth distribution. How We Live Together is the latest work from Senstad’s research project - Capitalism in the Public Realm - that she began in 2015 with a commissioned monumental sculpture, Gold Guides Me, for Triennale Brugge. Using public art and architecture as vehicles to explore ideas of power, wealth, market, competition and dependence, Senstad addresses the search for personal liberation and satisfaction in our hyper-capitalist world. Exchanging To with We in Roland Barthes’ text How To Live Together - from his 1977 lecture series on the notions of idiorrhythmic living through philosophy, literature, history and religion - the artist raises the question of how do we want to reshape our future, suggesting a philosophical and psychological shift in approach towards a potential integrated future. By proclaiming the communal We in How We Live Together, the artist suggests a shift from the politics of self to an all encompassing economy of we, where the narratives of time, nature and future generations are included.
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