(...) Claire Fontaines neon sign Arbeit Macht Kapital (2012) is displayed in the Italian Embassy in Berlin. The 1939 building, with its fascist architecture dating from the Mussolini era, clearly places the text within the context of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" slogan that the Nazis so cynically inscribed over their concentration camp gates. In this way, capitalism appears to be just as totalitarian as National Socialism. Is it provocative or just a prank? Or does it demonstrate that there is no longer any difference? (...)

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/portrait-claire-fontaine (17.12.2021)