to fly through the mouths of men, University of Applied Arts, 2023, Vienna
une mauvaise pensée est identique à un voleur de nuit
Stainless steel, steel, aluminum, acrylic glass
2023
In late October 2022, I stumbled upon a collection of Chinese Joker card designs online by amateur playing card collector Matt Probert. Containing a wide range of motives, it included original motives, western inspired ones as well as cheaply reproduced counterfeits for the global market. Layering originals with their copies and adaptations, I tried to create a sort of animation, that traces the movement of an image through global chains of production. The steel frames are based on the outlines of the four buildings of the headquarter of the WTO, the institution that is supposed to regulate the flow of goods through an internationalized market.
