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Artist statement

My interdisciplinary practice spans a variety of mediums including sculpture (as the cornerstone), film/video, music/sound, performance, drawing, and text through artistic research and sociocultural systems which question and explore the social, cultural and financial aspect of materialism and artistic production in late capitalism. Approaches storytelling, communication and phenomena by incorporating references and elements such as esotericism, ecology, consumerism, feminism, internet culture and technologies, merging to create new constellations. Reflecting on the making and production, to gather, the using, harvest, distribution and their iterations in different social contexts, as well as different archiving and memory practices, in relation to a certain environment, this for a collective understanding and an awareness of identity. Addresses contrasts from agricultural trends to the city dwellers imitation, to show it for the masses, or to get the masses to buy the mass-produced item, from country to city - the hunter-gatherer, peasantry and industrialization to the Anthropocene, intellectual property and artificial intelligence – with an idea that historical subjectivities can take shape by cutting, copying, and pasting different sources and iconography to create a pastiche of juxtapositions, where the works presents a tableau and/or scenery claiming the sculptural aspect of both objects, items, stuff and props. A curiosity towards local production, accessibility, and privilege, where materials are made, collected or brought - generational crafts, traditional sculpture making, ready-mades, gathering, purchasing. Working non-linear for an open and sustainable process where sources get reused, and to be able to stay in the process while in the making of works. The composition of the works allows an overload of a reference ensemble to free it from epistemological structures, where repetitions and recognition demystifying the works to intuitively relating, encompasses an awareness for familiar forms and objects to appear, humor as a significant role, as well as kitsch, horror and pop aesthetics.

Sabine Wedege