1990 - 2023
‘1990’ is a stainless-steel sculpture. One that has the ambiguous role of furniture in being designed for the display of a transparent cube and a mount for blinds that act as a backdrop by which to maximize the visual enjoyment of this object.
Stainless steel, epoxy resin & vertical blinds
270 h. cm
Besides the practical consideration of the neutral beige background, the blinds have been chosen as a stylistic cue to reference the corporate design sensibility of the late twentieth century. Making the structure abstractly reminiscent of the kinds of places where the management of finance had been carried out – specifically in the era of the 80s and 90s when the financialization of the economic system was established.
The cube on display contains a form based on an architectural detail of a window in what looks like a single-family house in a respectable suburb of Reykjavik.
One constructed in 1990 – the year the National Reconciliation Agreement of 1990 (þjóðarsáttin) had been made, historically credited for ending the inflationary crisis that began in the 70s. This seems interesting in relation to history and the concept of an index – where one number is pegged to another through an intricate web of mutually insured risk that runs throughout the whole of the financial system.
