12 Dec 2024 → 15 Apr 2025
Gallery is open 24/7
Opening/vernissage:
12 Dec 2024, 17:00-20:00
Veni Vidi Bibi
Elmegade 4, København N, 2200, Denmark
https://www.instagram.com/veni_vidi.bibi/
Admission:
Free
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Opening Thursday 12.12
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In the work “Ex-Samples of Care #10” Chris is playing with the idea of a future society where domestic work and invisible labor are compensated by the government. Documentation needed in order to retrieve your monthly payment are samples with the dirt and dust collected and cast in latex.
The work is a site specific adaptation of a series made in June 2024 inspired by Silvia Federici’s “Caliban And The Witch” and Emma Holten’s “Underskud”. Both books deal with how women’s unpaid invisible labor as well as reproductive work birthing the new industrialist workforce, was an indispensable cornerstone of the foundation of capitalism.
For “Ex-Samples of Care #10” Chris created a imprint of the floor in the kitchen after closing time at Bar Vivant. The sample contains remains from the bar, such as candle wax, an olive pit, a peanut, bread crumbs and leaves she has cut out from the hand paper towels available in the bathroom. All subtle traces revealing a story of invisible work, care and connection.