{"id":20506,"date":"2015-04-02T12:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=20506"},"modified":"2015-04-02T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:56:50","slug":"anna-uddenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/anna-uddenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Aufstrebende Abjekte: Ein Atelierbesuch mit Anna Uddenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Final.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Uddenberg in her studio. Photo copyright Franz Gr\u00fcnewald\" width=\"560\" height=\"839\" \/> Anna Uddenberg in her studio. Photo copyright Franz Gr\u00fcnewald<\/p>\n<p><em>Since the 9th Berlin Biennale opened in June there&#8217;s been one artist whose work keeps popping up on Instagram with the tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/berlinbiennale\/\" target=\"_blank\">#berlinbiennale<\/a> &#8211; and that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/annauddenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">#AnnaUddenberg<\/a>. The sculptures and installations of the Berlin artist have been causing amusement and awe in equal measure for its brass and confrontational depictions of contemporary performance culture. Last year SLEEK went to her studio to find out what&#8217;s behind her contortionists in compromising and revealing positions, and this is what we found out.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGKVLfOSxMY\/\" target=\"_blank\">#berlinbiennial #annauddenberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by MoMA PS1 (@jennyschlenzka) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-02T18:02:05+00:00\">Jun 2, 2016 at 11:02am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><br \/>\nAnna Uddenberg\u2019s studio is in a typical Neuk\u00f6lln tenement building, where workshops,\u00a0artists\u2019 studios and apartments lie cheek by jowl. Inside, a half-finished Styrofoam and\u00a0resin sculpture lies atop a cheap suitcase with rollers: a plinth of sorts. Clad in a parka\u00a0and wearing a backpack, the sculpted form has drawn her shoulders back, exposing her full breasts to\u00a0onlookers. \u201cIt\u2019s entitled &#8216;Lady Uniqiue&#8217; and its all about the current obsession with travel and sports gear, outdoor living, full moon parties,\u201d Uddenberg explains.<br \/>\nUddenberg, 32, is a slight figure dressed in a nineties mish-mash of crushed velvet trousers, a slinky top and untinted sunglasses.\u00a0Hailing from Stockholm, she studied at the Swedish Royal Institute of Art, with a turn at\u00a0the St\u00e4delschule in Frankfurt.\u00a0Behind the sculpture, Styrofoam base pieces are set out in a pattern instantly\u00a0recognisable from the tattoos that adorn the smalls of many girls\u2019 backs: a tramp stamp.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a piece that will be set off against a wall. I\u2019m interested in these \u2018common\u2019, folky-cultural things,\u201d the artist explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-03-27_sleek_anna-uddenberg_044.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"433\" \/> Anna Uddenberg&#8217;s studio. Photo copyright Franz Gr\u00fcnewald<\/p>\n<p>Uddenberg started out as a performance artist: for example, in her show \u201cTruly\u00a0Yours\u201d, hostesses, escorts and glamour models enacted their version of an \u2018It girl\u2019. \u201cI was looking at genuineness, performed genuineness, how being perceived as \u201cgenuine\u201d is so important\u00a0in contemporary culture right now\u201d, she says. Social codes, poses and objects lie at the\u00a0heart of her work. Her focus lies on uncovering the \u201cit\u201d personae \u2013 as opposed to people &#8211;\u00a0that currently dominate traditional and social media. Her installation \u201cLa Isla&#8221;, 2014, features a kitchen\u00a0island and extractor fan\u00a0that she found on Craigslist, and perched atop is one of her\u00a0sculptures, legs scissored in a Voguing pose. Features distorted, she stares out at the\u00a0onlooker, a cipher. An embedded television screen shows scenes from a reality TV show, &#8220;Cheaters&#8221;, in which spouses confront their cheating partners. \u201cTheir slogan is \u2019the REAL reality show\u2019,&#8221; \u00a0It&#8217;s all about revenge, I feel like the notion on an \u00a0&#8216;authentic&#8217; drama is really present here,\u201d she says.<br \/>\nThe piece combines Uddenberg\u2019s interest in the codification of aspirational lifestyles \u2013 represented by\u00a0the luxury kitchen island (the exhibition took place in a luxury apartment) and the\u00a0aloofness of the accompanying figures, and their distorted relationship to the\u00a0environment they find themselves in. Her sculptures often feature the common markers\u00a0of the contemporary \u201cit\u201d girl \u2013 long, acrylic fingernails, &#8216;tribal&#8217; tattoos, and plenty of sex:\u00a0breasts are exposed and buttocks uplifted. The piece \u201cJealous Jasmine\u201d currently on\u00a0show at Sandy Brown gallery in Berlin, features a female figure bent deeply into an\u00a0expensive Graco pram, extending a leg to the side in an off-kilter, distorted and\u00a0unnatural pose. Jasmine wears fishnet stockings and a body which rides up into an ass crack\u00a0that proudly bears the mark of a tramp stamp. Her wig is elaborately and obviously\u00a0highlighted. The ensemble, with its flow of hair, its dirty puffa jacket and the empty\u00a0pram all evoke responses of the abject. \u201cI&#8217;ve seen so much gear that&#8217;s connected to newborns, rolling piles of stuff with umbrellas sticking out \u2013 so I wanted to incorporate that, with a booty and sportswear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-03-27_sleek_anna-uddenberg_115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"770\" \/> Anna Uddenberg&#8217;s studio. Photo copyright Franz Gr\u00fcnewald<\/p>\n<p>Yet Jasmine is also emblematic of the Yummy Mummy \u2013 the\u00a0hypersexualised maternal figure, a social construction.\u00a0 Uddenberg is at her happiest\u00a0subverting the performative aspects of supposedly aspirational figures: the \u2018it\u2019 girls and\u00a0boys that populate &#8220;Keeping Up With The Kardashians&#8221; or the Daily Mail\u2019s &#8220;Sidebar of\u00a0Shame&#8221;. The artist chooses to interpret this agenda via a practice that uses\u00a0elements of figurative, classical sculpture, where readymade objects stand in for the role\u00a0of the plinth, sculptures are cast in Styrofoam and resin rather than marble. In the\u00a0end, the viewer is left to answer the question of whether Uddenberg\u2019s pieces are satire\u00a0or homage to contemporary lifestyles, as read through the Daily Mail.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Interview von <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/author\/jeni-fulton\/\">Jeni Fulton<\/a><\/strong> \n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;X is Y&#8221; is on show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandy-brown.com\/\">Sandy Brown<\/a>, Berlin, until 18 April 2015<\/strong> \n<strong>Mehr: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/03\/laurie-simmons-at-the-jewish-museum\/\">Laurie Simmons<\/a>&#8216;s Uncanny Valley girls<\/strong> \n<strong>Mehr: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/03\/interview-with-debora-delmar\/\">Debora Delmar<\/a> makes juice bars an art thing at Modern Art Oxford<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Uddenberg in her studio. Photo copyright Franz Gr\u00fcnewald Since the 9th Berlin Biennale opened in June there&#8217;s been one artist whose work keeps popping up on Instagram with the tag: #berlinbiennale &#8211; and that is #AnnaUddenberg. 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