Silke Radenhausen's recent work is concerned with redressing a 19th century European tendency to standardise and categorise the products of other cultures as a way of controlling or taming them. Taking as her starting point the ordered geometry of the plates illustrating Owen Jones' 'Grammer [sic] of Ornament', Radenhausen re-works them in richly suggestive, three-dimensional textile pieces arranged in large panels, which the artist says is "embodying and fetishising them in a kind of double raid on art... interjecting sensual and material irregularities..."
The greeting card can be a vehicle of self-expression for contemporary artists. This millennium greeting reads like a detail or fragment of one of Radenhausen's larger works.