-73.630,67 € / Sandra Hauser

- 73.630,67€

I am Sandra Hauser. CEO and funding artist of the UBD Group. Throughout the 43 years of my sublime life I collected the beautiful number of - 73.630,67 €

I never bought capitalistic objects like a car, fashion or jewellery with the loans I took. Mostly I bought with them time and freedom. The time to do art, the freedom to not coming home when staying abroad and living there till the next itenerance. I also bought the excuse to not be straight, to life a boarderless life for myself and borderless towards others. I bought the feeling to be succesfull, nice clothes and over all material for my artworks. Sometimes I payed with my loans the endless hours in wich I couldn’t work due to be there for my alcoholic other and cleaning behind her the disfunctional chaos an addiction leaves behind. I also payed the 8 implants and countless teeth and jaw bone operations I needed due to psychosomatic pain - no one found the cause. I bought time to recover from burn outs. A also somehow bought my Freelance activity.

Years and years of my career as an artist I was ashamed of my debt situation. I was ashamed that I couldn’t afford the petrol to drive to a diner at a collectors house. I was afraid to talk about my debths and tryed to hide my situation, because I thought it would “unsuccessfull”.

When one day, again, my art was more couragious than me. I found an image - a huge mountain of ropes from the port of Marseille- in the hills behind my house where I am living. When I first saw this huge mountain of chaotic knots I knew this will be the place to work on about my debths. So I did. And so they became my artistic material. I opened in my solo show “1 Split Second” at La Traverse in Marseille the total sum of my debths to the curator, gallerist and the public.

Since than the weight of the sum is not heavy anymore. It became my force. My work. My art. My success. This is why I created this rubrique. To give people the chance to come out with their debths. To be straight about it. To talk about this beatiful yet ugly trap a lot of us fall into.

To make Minus a Plus.

Sandra Hauser, CEO UBD Group