-73.630,67 € / Sandra Hauser

- 73.630,67€

I am Sandra Hauser. CEO and founding 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 come home when staying abroad and living there until the next itinerance. I also bought the excuse to not be straight, to live a borderless life for myself and borderless towards others. I bought the feeling to be successful, nice clothes and overall material for my artworks. Sometimes I paid with my loans for the endless hours of care time in which I couldn’t work due to being there for my alcoholic mother and cleaning behind her the dysfunctional chaos her addiction left behind. I also paid for the 8 tooth implants and countless teeth and jaw bone operations I needed due to psychosomatic pain - of which no one found the cause. I bought time to recover from burnouts. I also 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 dinner at a collector's house 60 km away from my home. I was afraid to talk about my debts and tried to hide my situation, because I thought it would be “unsuccessful”. I also celebrated with every loan I got my disrespect towards the thief banks that would send me money with horrendous interest rates, even though it was already clear that I couldn’t afford to pay them back with my income.

When one day, again, my art was more courageous 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 would be the place to work on my debts. 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 debts to the curator, gallerist and the public.

Since then 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 debts. To be straight about it. To talk about this beautiful yet ugly trap a lot of us fall into.

To make MINUS A PLUS. It took me years to come out with my financial situation and it only gave me force and strength since I did.

So I invite you to make this step today. With us, the UBD Group. We won’t charge you a loan rate for it - it is totally for free.

Sandra Hauser, CEO UBD Group