Two Signs Articulated
2011
Installation with vinyl wall text and two-sided backlit sign
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany for The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989, 2011
Installation view, The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011
Two Signs Articulated appropriates the visual identities of Western Union, the global money transfer corporation, and Art Basel, the multinational art fair owned by the Swiss marketing conglomerate MCH Group. Western Union and Art Basel are commercial enterprises that operate at polar ends of the global economy but are in fact interdependent. In the installation they have been juxtaposed but also détourned to make them more “legible.”
Exhibition history
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989. ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. 2011, curated by Andrea Buddensieg, Peter Weibel, Jacob Birken, and Antonia Marten
Installation detail, The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011