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SANNY at SIGN: 'My work is more about the message and less about the beauty'

Last March, artist SANNY (Lelystad, 1998) spent a month working on an exhibition in SIGN together with Ayşen Kaptanoğlu and Nelly Dansen. The gallery invited them to make work in which the image of women and their place in economic and geopolitical systems and patterns is central or questioned. For the second edition of KUNST. magazine we interviewed SANNY, who at that time was still in the midst of preparing her exhibition.

“Out of nowhere I received an email from SIGN asking if I would be interested in setting up an exhibition. They approach various artists who they invite for a working period in the gallery to build works together around a specific theme or vision that they propose and that we then develop. Together with a number of other female artists, I will build work in March that will focus on our ideas about today's systems and politics, and in particular the position of women in them.

My work is accessible to everyone

Right now I have the idea to organize a slumber party in SIGN. Only unlike those sweet women's slumber parties in rom-coms, we will not fight with pillows, but will fight injustice in the world in conversations late into the night. In my work I try to find a way to turn things that are confrontational and not necessarily fun into something that is fun. In addition, my work is accessible to everyone, with which I hope to bring the widest possible audience into contact with each other and provide different perspectives.”

Curious about what SANNY, Ayşen Kaptanoğlu and Nelly Dansen have created? You can see it until May 5, 2024 in the SIGN gallery.