Josephine Meckseper
Selling out
2004
Window display with mixed media
78 x 148 x 35 cm |
Josephine Meckseper’s Selling Out reconstitutes ‘radical chic’ as a protest in itself. Mimicking both department store display and museum case, Meckseper presents an array of affluent goods for the 'consummate terrorist', framing the banality of consumer fetish as a time capsule of political unrest. Centring her arrangement around a publication on 70s anarchy bombers The Angry Brigade, Meckseper alludes to an subversive coffeetable-isation of violence, setting media, advertising, and middle class values as a backdrop of cultural anxiety and revolution.
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