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Divide and rule (Latin: divide et impera), or divide and conquer, in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. 

I came across the sleeping bag designs—another garment for an individual, that comes from the same rugged outdoorsy individualist romance as a product, but that speaks of a very different outcome of those same market systems. The sleeping bag speaks not to the triumph of market forces, but instead to its difficulties evenly spreading its benefits.

The result is a visual treatise on income inequality, global capitalism and the digital world built on shared fashion references.

“To me, they represent an era of dress — the feminine but power business look,” Mr. Denny said. “Also the Thatcher policies, which have accelerated global inequality.”

...San Francisco, home of both the tech elite and a growing divide between rich and poor that is painfully visible...

Making inequality its subject, Denny’s first solo show...

as Patagonia sleeping bags (once associated with camping, now with homeless encampments)

JAN 14–FEB 22, 2020 ALTMAN SIEGEL Gallery

bureaucracy that encode power and property

security through obscurity

sculptures, wall reliefs and framed works

interaction of technology, society and aesthetics

margaret thatcher’s scarves

thatcher- a figure synonymous with the neoliberal agenda advocating free markers

individual insulation, which reference the tech and finance culture in contrast to the homeless encampment 

the reliefs result in sculpted paper that interpret the aesthetics of bureaucracy, encoding power and property in an increasingly automated economy

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