Commodity Ecumene:
On the Art of Nina Beier
by Jeppe Ugelvig

paperback
11 x 16 cm
48 pages/Seiten

English

Essay by Jeppe Ugelvig
Edited by Vanessa Boni
Designed by James Langdon

co-published with
gl Holtegaard

in connection with the
exhibition
Nina Beier: Ø (Island)

ISBN 978-3-948546-21-2

In Commodity Ecumene, cultural theorist Jeppe Ugelvig offers an engaging exploration of the work of Danish artist Nina Beier. Beier calls attention to the esoteric nature of everyday consumer products, whose symbolic and material lives go largely unexamined, not least by art history.

Drawing on the theories of Roland Barthes and Arjun Appadurai, Ugelvig examines Beier’s use of discarded commodities—from marble countertops to equestrian figurines—and the materialist narratives embedded in them, which prompts a reflection on the global exchange systems that shape and make up our frenzied world of commodities.