Josephine Meckseper

Consumer article or ideological symbol, political message or manifestation of a trend? New York-based German artist Josephine Meckseper (*1964) radically challenges the classic categories of high and low culture. Fascinated by the equal treatment of advertising and politics in the media, she turns her observations into large shop-window installations which satirize the conventions of displaying goods and into hand-sewn fabric pieces in which she combines fashion accessories with Palestinian shawls and other insignia of left-wing protest movements.
With essays by Okwui Enwezor and Christian Holler, and an interview with the artist by Simone Schimpf, this monograph provides an overview of the different visual worlds - films, collages, paintings, sculptures, and installations - of this unusual artist.