Artist Statement

Glenn Plaisier is a visual artist working with the conceptual implications of — the loss of — value. Most of the material output consists out of a combination of objects, commodities and consumer goods, approaching ideas of intellectual property, assets, depreciation and lingual constructs with a straight forward manner, which at times recalls the simple clarity of jokes. In the past the work mainly revolved around drawing and painting with materials like crude oil, cocaine or Chanel nail polish. Over the course of the last two years, the manifested works shifted away from this hands-on art production, towards a more theoretical practice proposing questions about ownership, capital, resources, and consumer culture. This lead to a collection of works that is solely text-based, completely relies on rented objects or is immaterial all together. By working with contracts, brand images, and through the appropriation of corporate identities and objects from institutions within the art- and financial world, Plaisier makes witty use of the constructs that bond us legally to emphasise the paradoxical relation between everyday objects, language, advertisement or something obscene like the value of an artwork.