Hopf’s works reference the effects that developments in economics and technology have had on our bodily and mental composition. With her series Laptop Men she presents a humorous reading of the way we interact with computers, and the growing tendency to perceive them as part of our bodies. This takes place against a backdrop of an increasing dependence on implants and prostheses among the human species.
In her sculptures, installations and videos, German artist Judith Hopf transforms everyday settings and humble materials into comic expressions of humanist values, verging on the absurd...