Katharina Arndt
Katharina Arndt does this through artificial mediums such as PVC film, lacquer paper and Plexiglas with glossy acrylic paint and lacquer markers, using glossy texture to represent our plastic and materialistic culture. The focus of Arndt’s practice is the observation of digital communication and the portrayal of mass consumption in the digital age. Her cartoon figures are a reflection on how we express ourselves in the digital arena and how we are becoming ever obsessed with the digital world whilst losing ourselves in the physical. Fast, reduced, almost childlike, motifs and medium ironize the contemporary mass consumerist aesthetic of a decadent, abundant society in picturing her everyday life.