Katya Sander

Works:

Capital Failure (Sold)
2006
Intervention and installation

Shown at "Fantom", Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. Catalogue.
Curated by Søren Andreasen and Jesper Rasmussen

Intervention:

A small group of persons covertly applied thousands of little red "sold" stickers to price tags in a number of major department stores throughout Copenhagen. The stickers could be found on price tags up until and still weeks after the opening of the show.

Installation:

Sheets of unused “sold” stickers were hung, covering a large wall in the Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall. The sheets were mounted in loose layers on long nails so that they could be easily removed. The guards present in the exhibition hall were instructed to answer any questions from the viewers that may be asked regarding their taking of the sticker sheets with the statement, “There are specifically no instructions on this matter”.

Snapshots from the intervention in the department stores could be found next to the wall of sticker sheets.

On another wall, a text is mounted in the same manner as the sticker sheets. The text runs over this series of sheets, thus being cut up, fragmented and appearing as if said by someone stuttering, in staccato, in a stream of consciousness or more voices interrupting each other.

The text speaks about a system depending on trust and belief; a system of movement, flow, exchange and the counting of value, which is functional only if its users trust that the flow will always go on, never fixate, stagnate or stop; that there will always be more, that no commodity will ever be the last.

Thank you to: Nanna Grunnet, Stephan Sander, Zach Formwalt, Henriette Heise, Åse Eg Jørgensen, Asta Fabricius Jørgensen, Thomas Elsted Rasmussen.