It’s All a Façade (Alles Fassade)/Never Mind Shelf (Regal Egal), three-part exhibition/performance: exterior of an art gallery building, washroom with mirror, Nivea Creme, wooden planks, 200 x 50 cm, mounted on a wall with shelf brackets (installation: Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, 2005)

In the washroom on the way to the gallery toilet you could see once more It’s All a Façade. The mirror above the sink, stretching the whole width of the little room, was covered with a thick layer of white in impressive strokes. Only the smell revealed that it is Nivea again. It is not the first time the popular skin cream has appeared in Haring’s interventions on mirrors or façades, confronting the nose, obstructing the eyes and asserting the body. Her last Nivea-on-mirror piece (in the public toilet of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver) was called What Matters is What You See.

(Julia Wayne)