Kasseler KunstVereinsHeim - Program June - (e.) Twin Gabriel
Thursday, 14. June 2007, 8 p.m.
(e.) Twin Gabriel (D)
"Turpitudo - Scheiß Künstlerin (Mooning the Art World)"
Slide Performance
"We are partly acting it, but we are also actually partly the scum ourselves". This is how Else Gabriel comments on her latest work "Prosoche", 2006. Gabriel, her husband Ulf Wrede and their children Linus and Grete portray a family in the corridor of the employment office in Berlin-Neukölln, a family who stoically and hopelessly waits for a future they will have no admission to. (e.) Twin Gabriel take up the topic of what they experience as contradictive and independent conditions, such as the strange mixture of strict Moselm attire and Nike trainers seen on Turkish girls jogging in Berlin's Hasenheide. This inspired her, in a kind of "Flight out of Egypt", to create a series of art-historical, almost journalistic pictures of the Holy Family ("Jogging Muslima", 2005). To this day incorrigibly allergic to ideological pedagogy and political immobility, they count on the power of the auto perforation of social conditions. Indeed, the name of her group of artists at the time of the German Democratic Republic was "Autoperforationartists". In their simulations for the video or photo camera they developed a kind of verbal realism - strangely parallel with their often pathos-laden tradition - which was biting and crass, but also often humourous. In the Kunstvereinsheim they themselves are the "scum" and scold: "Turpido - damned artist!"
