The innate disposition of appropriation

Katja Novitskova 

[Innate Disposition], 2012

digital print, plastic cutout display, 180 x 160, 80 cm.

‘Nature is over’, declared Time magazine last year, in its roundup of new ideas for the twenty-first century. That’s right. We are now, according to Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen, in the Anthropocene – a period in which humans are the dominant influence over biological, geological and chemical processes on earth.

Katja Novitskova 

[Free Market], 2012

found image of Orlando Toro, found image of a SLLIMM-nano intelligent power modules produced at STMicroelectronics factory in Catania, digital print on PVC, cutout advertisement display, 95 cm x 70 cm x 1 cm

Every artist who is under the age of forty that I know of, or know personally, appropriates quite regularly in their practice. It’s a result of myriad factors, perhaps the most obvious of which is the ubiquity of the internet as a matter-of-fact aspect of our everyday lives.