Toon Fibbe
audiovisual - economics - artistic research - performance - writing
The driving force of Toon Fibbe's (rotterdam1987) practice lies in the thinking, writing, acting and enacting of characters. It is this activity that spawns objects, texts, fashion, performance and installations.
Fibbe's work deals with finance, by departing from the perspective of characters he converts the abstractions of finance into unexpected theatrical images, dripping sculptures and installations in which finance begins to scream, bankers walk on heels and derivatives start to bleed.
Fibbe aims to make the difficult to grasp and abstract underpinning of finance felt, not through rational analysis - but through bodily and visceral imagery. In his work the body becomes a medium through which the abstractions of finance are made visible. He shows how we are all intimately linked to finance. How it moves through us and puts a price to the houses we live in, the energy we consume and the food we ingest - turning even our intestines into a testament of the global financial system
