Elsa Werth, Buy Add to Cart, 2023, view1

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Buy - Add to Cart
2023. Edited by More Publishers, Belgium.
Print on pvc canvas, 300 x 400 cm
Work installed at 493, Chaussée de Mons in Tubize, Belgium from 01.01 to 03.04.2024. Campaign 01 curated by More Publishers




Elsa Werth, Your Cart is Empty, 2023_view 3

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Your Cart is Empty
2023. Black paint on paper, 150 x 230 cm
Work installed in Montpellier in November 2023. Affichage Libre curated by Eric Wattier, Mathieu Tremblin and Arzhel Prioul




Elsa Werth, 27.7, 2023, at night

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24 - 7
2023. Print on pvc canvas, 260 x 390 cm
Work installed at B09K in Changsha (China) from 18.06 to 16.07.2023. Lunar Practices curated by Yuan Yué
>>> This project humorously juxtaposes the image of the moon, a symbol of celestial time, with the relentless concept of 24/7 time, unearthing the haunting disconnection and alienation that arise from our consumerist lifestyle.




Elsa Werth, Agenda, 2022, view3

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Agenda
2022. Engraved metal coin, Ø 2.7 cm, 1000 copies edited by Pernod Ricard Foundation, Paris
>>> Agenda proposes the rule of an everyday game: “Flip the coin everyday”. It consists of flipping a coin each morning to decide whether our day will be off or on, thus allowing chance to redefine our relationship to time and productivity.
On one side, the inscription MONDAY, followed by WORK TODAY, urges us to work. On the other side, SUNDAY, followed by DO NOT WORK TODAY, calls for free time. The week thus redefined by chance becomes dynamic.



Elsa Werth, Broken Currencies, exhibition view_1

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Broken Currencies
2022. Painted steel, variable dimensions
Work displayed at Entre deux portes, 64 rue de Namur in Brussels from 17.06 to 16.07.22
>>> The Euro, the Dollar and the Yuan, the currencies that dominate the markets are presented broken down and displayed in shop windows in a central district of Brussels where the luxury stores are located.



Elsa Werth, A Emporter, 2022, vue exposition Lendroit, Rennes_1

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Sur Place - À Emporter
2022. Edited by Lendroit Editions, Rennes.
Color print on pvc banner, 136 x 376 cm, double-sided color print on 350g card, edition of 200 copies
Work displayed at Lendroit Editions in Rennes from 06.08 to 01.10.22
>>> This project proposes a display seen from outside which is to “takeaway” and an exhibition to be seen “on site” inside the shop of Lendroit editions in Rennes.The principle of this exhibition is to take up the terms “on site” and to “takeaway” usually associated with material subjects and to shift them in the field of the art, thusraising the question of the consumption of culture.



Elsa Werth, Meeting Point, 2022, wall painting_view2

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Meeting Point
2022. Wall painting, site specific installation, variable dimension
Black and white offset, 88 pages, 19 x 12 cm, edition of 200 copies
Work commissioned by Spvie Assurances and displayed for one year at 26 Rue Pagès in Suresnes. A project curated by Bureau Principal, Fanny Kroener
>>> The statement MEETING POINT is simultaneously given to read in its signage function and disturbed by the typographic game which interrupts and slows down its perception, almost making it stutter. The fragmentation of syllables on the wall, the intrusion of punctuation marks (exclamation, interrogation, suspension) leave an uncertainty about the possibility of meeting.



Elsa Werth, Soon Cooked Beer 2060 +2°, 2022

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SOON COOKED BEER • 2060 : + 2°
2022. Beer commissioned by Multiple Art Days and Brasserie Demory Paris. Work displayed at Fiminco Foundation in Romainville from 09.09 to 11.09.2022. A project curated by CNEAI and Multiple Art Days
This project addresses, in a humorous and subversion manner, the urgent issue of global warming by creating this unique beer whose alcohol content has been boosted by +2° in relation to the initial recipe. In this way, she establishes a connection between the increase in its alcohol level and the increase of the Earth’s temperature +2° Celsius predicted by climatologists for the year 2060.
The beer’s name is a play on words: "SOON COOKED" refers to the idea of being “cooked” in the sense of “drunk” or “intoxicated,” but also more literally, being cooked in the increasing heat around the planet. "SOON COOKED BEER • 2060 : + 2°," will therefore get us drunk much too quickly, as the constant pressure and collective hysteria in contemporary society leads us to avoid confronting the catastrophe that is unfolding before our eyes.



E.Werth, Unpredictable Border, 2019, view_web1

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Unpredictable Border
2019. Print on polyester, 100 x 150 cm
>>> A red line endlessly contorted into infinite random drawings. Or how to slip from a fixed to a flexible border.



Elsa Werth, Mainmise, 2019, vue2

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Stranglehold
2019. Print on polyester, 100 x 150 cm
Work commissioned by Centre des Livres d'artistes in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche.



Elsa Werth, Expanding the Margin Lines, 2019_view4

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Expanding the Margin Lines
2019. Offset print on adhesive tape, 5 x 660 cm, édition of 2000 copies
Work commissioned by Adhex Technologies in Chenôve, project running from January 2020 to January 2021
>>> A tape made for all the shipments of Adhex Tecnhologies Company. Every use of this adhesive tape on parcels generates an ephemeral sculpture which can be seen during the process of shipment before it vanishes as soon as the parcel is opened.



Elsa Werth, You.are.here project_web

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You.Are.Here
ongoing project on Instagram since 2016
>>>This project is specific to Instagram and takes the shape of a travel diary since 2016.This is a photo collection of « you are here » locator symbols : an identical, codified and globalized sign of topography all over the world.The Instagram platform is meant to share immediately what you do/where you are with your followers, but my journey here goes nowhere.It kind of returns the Instagram social network on itself because instead of using it to share information about myself it is you that I designate.Also, what usually makes the interest of traveling remains off-screen, beyond the photo frame shot.



Elsa Werth, Tiens, 2019, exhibition view_1

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Tiens
2019. Wall painting and stickers, variable dimensions
Work displayed on 26.05.2019 at the occasion of Thundercage #3 (curated by Romain Vicari)
located : 2, rue Heurtault in Aubervilliers



Elsa Werth, ‘Manifeste’, 2016_1

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Manifest
2016. Ink stamp [Precarious Shape Visible on this Day with no Manifest Value]
>>> An ephemeral trace doomed to disappear. This performance proposes, in a very minimalist form, a reflexion on the financial value, production, permanency and property of an art work.



Elsa Werth, Recto Verso, 2014, 119 x 84 cm, view 2

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Recto/Verso
2014. Black and white print on blueback posters dispayed in public space, 119 x 84 cm



Elsa Werth, Solution de repli, 2013_1

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Fallback Solution
2013. Folding chairs, metal eyelets, strap, bumbag, 80 x 47 x 80 cm
Work displayed from 09.03 to 11.03.2013 on Gustave Goublier Street, 75002, Paris