JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER
b. 1964, GermanyJosephine Meckseper is a German artist based in New York. She studied at Berlin University of the Arts from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992.
Meckseper, also publisher of the FAT Magazine, addresses questions about the politics of power and the propagation of political ideas as commodity. At the center of her work are critical observations of consumerism and the aesthetization of politics. Fascinated by the direct contrast of advertising and political reports in newspapers, her works also criticize the typical classifications of high and low culture. In her shop-windows installations and hand-sewn fabric works, which combine such things as Palestinian shawls and other left-wing insignia with fashion accessories, she asks if there is a difference between consumer articles and political symbols.
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