Katya Sander’s works revolve around themes such as the private and public domains. She explores language, identity, urban planning and democracy. One element of her fascination with public spaces relates to the public space of the news media….
In most of my work one can generally find an element of negotiation, contestation and/or rejection of the idea of space as neutral and objective. I have worked with logics, structures and narratives of space as well as in space, trying to investigate how space is always a specific construction, but one based on very general assumptions about who we are and how we understand each other…