CANDIDATE 2008
Maria Duncker
Maria Duncker's art reflects the freedom of the artist that is characteristic of our time with regard to materials, methods and display situations. In her happenings/installations, Duncker might show, say, plastic moulds and toy recycling. She even sculpts with her teeth, her instrument of choice being a sewing machine, video camera or, for example, a van, whose interior she and her colleague have converted to give camera obscura rides to 'tourists'. This movement within a radically altered landscape of visual possibilities and the social field is characteristic of Duncker, and she displays her art right in people faces as a humorous antidote to the numbing power of advertising .Erkki Pirtola