For Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Danish artist Nina Beier presents ‘The Demonstrators,’ a new series of work consisting of various domestic objects with posters glued onto them.

‘The Demonstrators’ follow a simple principle of hanging posters dipped in glue to dry on objects, as one would leave a towel out to dry. The drying process joins the two objects in an inseparable union, generating something like a wet t-shir t effect. The images on the posters are selected from photographs available from image banks and use the vocabulary of metaphors that have been developed in this forum to predict what anyone would need to express today. The objects all come from discount and department stores and are similarly made to cover our every need. The marriage between these two families of products, brings out the objecthood of the poster and the emblematic aspect of the object – as the object might be read as a symbolic attribution to the content of the poster or conversely the poster reduced to a draping to the object.