Vanessa Billy “We Dissolve” at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

Vanessa Billy’s exhibition of “We Dissolve” is based off of her own ideology that questions human existence and how we eventually we as people will no longer exist along with every that we have created. While her pieces relate particularly to the overwhelming amounts of technology that can both aid and cripple us at the same time, from Moleworth’s point of view, Billy could be scene as a modern day laborer making artwork as discourse to a capitalist society. Along with the fact that instead of using traditional mediums such a paint and canvas like a typical western artist before WWII, she is making soft casts, wires, cables, and other miscellaneous items.

Her own vision is something that many people would consider to be ‘an attack on society’ instead of an artist making an expression through their work. So while Billy may not be a laborer making discourse to capitalism, she is certainly putting out a broad view that many people that consider themselves as ‘above others’ in our society would attempt to make political waves with her art.