Premium Economy
German / English
9783954765805
220 pages
Distanz Verlag Gmbh Llc
Overview
Anna Uddenberg's art pursues an ambitious and polarizing perspective on
physicality, gender, and commercial aesthetics. The artist's sculptures and
performances examine the inextricable entanglements that novel technologies
engender between consumerism, spirituality, and self-promotion. Uddenberg rose
to renown in the 2010s primarily with her hypersexualized figures riding
through the gallery space on trolleys, their selfie sticks extended toward the
sky and their butts, booties, crutches, pussies. Yet beyond these lascivious
and provocative representations of bodies, Uddenberg's work is always also a
play with space. In new works, she turns her attention to the real estate
market and heterotopian infrastructures. The use of medical or automobile
skeletal structures refers to the concepts of care and comfort as means of
control. Uddenberg's first monograph, featuring works created since 2010, is released on occasion of the artist's receipt of the 2022
Hectorpreis. It contains a foreword by Johan Holten, director of Kunsthalle
Mannheim, and a conversation with the artist by the writer and curator Samuel
Staples. Caroline Busta, founder of the media platform New Models, approaches
Uddenberg's work that intrigues as a futuristic result of multiple
rearrangements of everyday objects and materials.
Author Bio
Anna Uddenberg was born in Stockholm, 1982. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.
