Elsa Werth
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Through an economy of means, Elsa Werth makes purposefully non-spectacular gestures as forms of resistance, disruption, and transformation. Her work combines a pursuit of simplicity, clarity, and efficiency, but engages large scale subjects, and consequential systems of exchange and representation. At the edge of design, her practice explores the power of context, association, often in tension with commonplace activities, applications, and function. Werth recently won the Ricard prize, with a project that involved coins, transforming a simple game of chance, and a hack of French currency.
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Through an economy of means, Elsa Werth makes purposefully non-spectacular gestures as forms of resistance, disruption, and transformation. Her work combines a pursuit of simplicity, clarity, and efficiency, but engages large scale subjects, and consequential systems of exchange and representation. At the edge of design, her practice explores the power of context, association, often in tension with commonplace activities, applications, and function. Werth recently won the Ricard prize, with a project that involved coins, transforming a simple game of chance, and a hack of French currency.