RUBIA Y MORENA
site specific intervention in a public showcase in front of Pier Drei Hotel, Hamburg HafenCity
mixed scrap wood
2022
Hamburg-based artist Kristina Kröger has developed a two-part sculpture from discarded furniture and wood scraps. RUBIA Y MORENA consists of veneered pressed wood panels collected from flats and the streets of Hamburg, which is carefully reassembled for this occasion. At first glance harmonising in colour and skilfully crafted on closer inspection, several wood type imitations can be distinguished in the combination of which runs counter to 'good taste'. As before, judgements of taste are decisive for class affiliation; a solid wood table represents a status symbol just as laminate is no longer acceptable above a certain income level. The furniture objects are named after the Spanish terms for the female hair colours blond and brunette; they play with the attribution of the domestic as a female sphere and at the same time deliberately put themselves on public display. © IMAGINE THE CITY
