BROKEN CURRENCIES

Elsa Werth’s work takes many forms, including installations, sculptures, videos, artists’ books and sound pieces.
Her artistic practice is concerned with the economy of work, with ways of working.
She takes account of ordinary actions, everyday gestures linked to contemporary activities and rituals, designating them and destabilizing them through operations of displacement, counter-use and disruption.

Through an economy of means, she claims anti-spectacular productions as tactics of resistance. His working materials are those things that make the real: the objects, the words, the signs and the forms with which and through which we live. Common things in every sense of the word: common because they are ordinary, common because they are shared.

His work has been presented in France as well as abroad, in alternative institutions and venues, notably in Bloom (Düsseldorf), Frac Normandie (Caen), Frac Pays de la Loire (Carquefou), Trois‿a (Toulouse), Mudam (Luxembourg), Art Museum of Nanjing University, Coimbra Biennale, BSMNT (Leipzig), Société (Brussels), at the Creux de l’Enfer (Thiers), at the ZK/U Center for Art (Berlin), at Interface (Dijon), at the Centre des livres d’artistes (St Yrieix-la-Perche), at the Bazar Compatible Program (Shanghai), at Duplex/Walden (Geneva).