Elisabeth Arkhipoff
Often pegged in the small pool of artists who blur the lines between art and design (such as Laurent Fétis and Jeremy Blake), New York-based artist Elisabeth Arkhipoff creates installations and collages based on the concept of the solo and the group search for identity and individualization in our society.
Inspired more by texts and literature, where the impetus is on you to create an image in your mind, than by visual art, her pieces often play on hegemonic ideas that culture is created within a construct, capitalism perverts actual rebellion and nihilistic tendencies serve as much purpose as sticking a pin through your nose and calling yourself a punk.
On a commercial level, Arkhipoff has designed works for labels such as Anna Sui and Swarovski and doodled the cover art for artists such as M83 and Dirty.
Her latest project “Sport Hit Paradise”, showing at new art space 12Mail from December 11, was created in Tokyo in 2004. Based around a fictional band (called “Sport Hit Paradise”), the project seemingly plays on the current trends in popular culture with regards to the music industry. Complete with website, fanclub and one vinyl release, this current exhibition features collages and drawings by Arkhipoff outlining the creative process. Arkhipoff came up with titles for each song on the “band’s” latest album and encouraged the likes of Munk, Villeneuve, Discodeine and more to create music tracks based on the titles.
“Sport Hit Paradise” runs until February 10 2010.
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