Humour and (self-)irony are not essential per se for producing social- and media-critical art – but negotiating aesthetic, media and socio-cultural ideas with an artistic tongue-in-cheek wit often works extremely well. In Jochen Traar’s work, humour finds its expression by subtly playing with the reversal of our habits of sensing and viewing everyday things, often through the overlapping of visual and linguistic elements – in Labil Heute Denk an Morgen this takes the form of an anagram playing on words and a small contextual shift.

Jochen Traar, Labil Heute Denk an Morgen, 1996/2022
Paper carrier bag
Price: € 150 (framed, with artist’s signature) / € 90 
Edition of 10 (framed) and 10 (unframed)