Women’s hands with pink artificial nails, decorated with logos of luxury brands, caress discarded garments. They haptically explore every detail of the textile, literally caressing it. Next to it, a metal clothes rack that has become non-functional because it has been bent appears.
Stefanie Moshammer’s ongoing series We Love Our Customers plays with our perception of today’s consumer and brand culture. In a humorous and perceptive way, the artist examines our relationship to garments between tradition and the present, between appreciation and mass product. The works gathered in the exhibition flirt with this dichotomy of values and the contrast of organic materials and alienated, machine-made set pieces. In addition to digitally generated texts and found-footage videos, the artist uses her grandmother’s collection of fabrics as source material.
Curator: Sophie Haslinger
Untere Weißgerber Straße 13, 1030 Wien
KunstHausWien
As the first “green museum,” KunstHausWien sees itself as a central location where issues relating to the environment and sustainability are addressed in the context of contemporary art. Based on the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser and his commitment to ecological and socio-political responsibility, the museum presents exhibitions of contemporary art and links them to an interdisciplinary, in-depth discourse program.
STEFANIE MOSHAMMER: We Love Our Customers
13 Oct 2022 - 14 Feb 2023
KUNST HAUS WIEN
Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser, Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, Wien, Wien, Österreich
Stefanie Moshammer, She is but a trendy deal, 2022, Full HD, color, sound. Video still © Stefanie Moshammer
