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Jeppe Ugelvig, Commodity Ecumene: On the Art of Nina Beier Food high above the villas andIn Commodity Ecumene, cultural theorist Jeppe Ugelvig offers an engaging exploration of the work of Danish artist Nina Beier. Beier calls attention to the esoteric nature of everyday consumer products, whose symbolic and material lives go largely unexamined, not least by art history. Drawing on the theories of Roland Barthes and Arjun Appadurai, Ugelvig examines Beiers use of discarded commoditiesfrom marble countertops to equestrian figurinesand the