Antje Tamae Barke

20 . 05 - 04 . 06, 2022

Accompanied by the exhibition text Pure Negativity  by Daniel John Corbett Sanders

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Barke writes…

This project started over a year ago when I was still working at Everyday Needs and felt a deep irony in the juxtaposition between the two spaces I inhabited ~ my work space: a beautiful interior design store which focused on utility as aesthetic and aestheticised the lifestyle of creatives but at a huge price… my studio space: samoahouselibrary which was created due to the need for our artistic community to not loose our utilities, resources and spaces. The job funded my ability to have a studio at SHL and exist while having a practice but it wasn’t lost on me that while catering to a specific class aesthetically, it was same cultural spaces that influenced those aesthetics, that had their own resources, referenced as utility, being devalued, stripped and increasingly hard to access.