
“I am a spokesperson for totally anarchistic mayhem on a bed of traditional family values.” Matias Faldbakken, 2013
A crumpled plastic bag serves as the unlikely canvas for a scrawled, handwritten phrase rendered in felt-tip pen and pencil, its disposable materiality at odds with the deliberate act of framing. Faldbakken's choice to preserve and encase this ephemeral object lends an air of institutional weight to what might otherwise read as a throwaway gesture or scrap of personal notation. The tension embedded in the work's title-as-text mirrors the contradiction of its form: a declaration of anarchic impulse contained within the authoritative borders of the artist's own frame.
- Medium
- felt-tip pen, pencil on plastic bag, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
September 16, 2014
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