The title of his recent exhibition, “The Collector,” defines the creative process of the Berlin-based Portuguese artist Noé Sendas. Since the beginning of his career, in the mid-’90s, he has developed an oeuvre based on the politics of collecting. In his videos, sculptures, and digital photographic collages he brings together diverse components of Western culture and, like a DJ armed with a sampler, mixes them in order to assign them new meanings. In many of his works one recognizes influences from literature and cinema—for example, citations from Joyce and Beckett, Hitchcock and Godard. These