Sara MacKillop’s presentation at Liste 2025 interrogates the economic-material conditions of art, exposing tensions between originality, commodification, and transience. Shrink-wrapped canvases, slit to reveal a mini highlighter, disrupt artistic autonomy, foregrounding material contingency. A carpet rolls back onto printed pens, absurdly blurring intentionality. By embedding reproduction rights into ownership, MacKillop collapses the original/copy binary. While her use of locally sourced materials and labour critiques the extractive logic of cultural tourism, positioning the artist as both outsider and participant within the city’s socio-economic fabric.

Sara MacKillop is a London-based artist with an MA from the Royal College of Art. Her work engages with everyday printed matter, subtly intervening in systems of distribution and consumption. Using minimal deviation—repetition, displacement, and recontextualization—she exposes the aesthetic and structural codes of commercial ephemera, questioning design, authorship, and value. Recent exhibitions include 'Expanded Pamphlets' at Roland Ross and 'Separate Volumes' at Ginny on Fredrick.