Karin Sander, Bodyscan for 5000 €

Profil:

Karin Sander's work is multi-layered, multi-faceted, and yet distinctive. Inspired by the surrounding environment, site-specific situations, intricate themes, and precise questioning, ?she develops ideas and then carefully delegates the task of carrying them out to assistants, scientists, technicians, equipment, or machines. For the viewer, the results are surprising, revealing an unusual perspective of previously familiar things.
Her works show interventions in given situations, or else delineate subtle alterations: a chicken's egg in the exhibition Leiblicher Logos is polished until its shell reflects everything surrounding it, or visitors to the ZEIGEN exhibiton can read the names of the artists on the otherwise blank walls of the gallery, and then call up the audio pieces by these artists on an audio tour. In listening to the pieces, the viewer imagines images that are not physically present, but nevertheless there.
A group of works, known as the Gebrauchsbilder, consists of standardized canvases in store-bought sizes, painted with a white ground, which the collector hangs in a selected place, which probably does not provide the right conditions for its preservations such as a kitchen, a cellar, a garage, a taxi, or a ship. Unprotected, the work remains there for a certain period of time. The collector determines how long it will remain, and as it hangs there, the image takes on and reproduces the patina of its environment. This process, in which the canvas absorbs its surroundings, can go on indefinitely or be interrupted at some point. (Galerie Barbara Gross, München)