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Anna Uddenberg, Santa Par Aqua (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, 'Sisterunit on Fly' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, 'Cozy Stabilization Unit' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, 'Cozy Stabilization Unit' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, Santa Par Aqua (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, 'Twin generators and Upgraded Tender' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, Santa Par Aqua (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, 'Pockets Obese' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
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Anna Uddenberg, 'Pockets Obese' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.

The absurdity of collective fantasies + unrealistic ideals in Anna Uddenberg’s Santa Par Aqua at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler

, 19 January 2018

Anna Uddenberg presented solo exhibition Santa Par Aqua at Berlin’s Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, which opened November 4 and ran to January 13. 

Anna Uddenberg, Santa Par Aqua (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.

present “unrealistic ideals.” Uddenberg’s work often hijacks tropes of consumer culture related to femininity and expectations to reveal “the absurdity of collective fantasies.”

From styrofoam, acrylic resin, fiber glass, coffee tables and car interior elements, to hiking backpacks, crocs shoes and aluminium climbing, Uddenberg appropriates a large amount of material into “quasi-functional objects” that create “unexpected scripts for the bodies that might occupy them.”**

Anna Uddenberg’s Santa Par Aqua solo exhibition was on at Berlin’s Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, running November 4 to January 13, 2018.