The pieces by Bas Schevers are interventions or
actions in which he deals with the given situation in an exhibition.
The experiences in making art and exhibiting, in which different understandings
and questions emerge, give cause for his work. He touches the basic principles
of art: how do we choose, how do we experience. His way of working, and
out of that the character of his projects, is playful and radical, optimistic
and subversive: steal a childrens bicycle and exhibit it, copy a work
on an art fair and exhibit it in the same venue or changing the entrance
of an exhibition space into the entrance of a peep show.
Complex issues are questioned this way by Schevers and gain clarity.
Anne Schiffer:
Anne Schiffer her work deals with the connection of social hierarchy and
the use of (consumer) symbols in social interaction. In quite a number
of circumstances our importance in society is measured by status symbols
and acquiring or losing a social position.
She finds the term mimicry is applicable in this. She surrounds herself
acting different characters with appropriate status symbols; objects of
which not the matter itself is important but have the power to express
to which class of people one would like to be part of. The purposive use
of cheap, often fragile materials provide an ironic comment. The dividing
line between original and copy, fact and ficition, succeed and fail is
stretched and put on the order paper.