Tyberculaneum by VA.BOBWTE, Work Week.o, 2016, Tyber.nv Menen
Her first name and temper were borrowed from a Swedish artist, her surname from the local jewellery store owner in young VA's village.
Robin Ingelbreć (°1982, Stockholm, Sweden) is an artist who mainly works with drawing. By demonstrating the universally lingering of a ‘corporate world’, her drawings reference post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
Her drawings are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, she focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: space that is economically uninteresting.
Her works demonstrate how artists develop beyond their own abstract aspirations and often tell a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilised’ selves. Robin Ingelbreć currently lives and works in Berlin.