Gallery talk – Liste Highlights 2023

Shifts are long at the candy factory. Human bodies work like silent machines – minimum wage, overtime, no bonuses, no social security. Doruntina Kastrati knows that from her mother. The artist comments on the living conditions of the working class in Kosovo with human-sized pistachio sculptures. The shell of the processed product catches the eye at Eugster as an oversized aluminium cast. Opposite Kastrati, the gallery shows works by Julija Zaharijević. Using the example of leather upholstery, it shows how characteristics of social class lose their distinctive potential.