We are happy to feature the artists Simon Steinhauser and Maja Degirmendzig and their work “IDENTITY”. In “IDENTITY”, the artists are wondering what is the most importand things in life.
Simon explains:
“During a 10 minutes working break, while making preparations for shows at the Liverpool biennial, I asked Maja what the most important things in life are?
She said: money and where you come from, and sometimes maybe the religion you are born in.
I answered: lets do something which contains all these three parts.
This is how we decided to start with the project IDENTITIES? With the help of some friends, we arranged banknotes from Israel, the USA, Turkey, China, Russia and the EU. After a process of colouring them with acryl in the different colours of their nations flags, we started to sew (and partly cut) them together. The new flags we created, became independent of their content - money, nationality and religion.
At the same time - through changing or using national banknotes for different, opposite countries - they became a different worth.”
You can read more about the artist HERE.
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