Evelyn Plaschg, Valentina Triet
Evelyn Plaschg & Valentina Triet

September 24 — October 10, 2021

Pornography shouldn’t be mistaken for the objectification that arises from some (or indeed from most) pornography. Pornography is a system of subjective representation, a system for which we are responsible. If we want to have access to and circulate a kind of pornography that corresponds with who we are, then it’s up to us to produce it and define its modes of circulation.

"Write this down! Write this down!: That you can’t fight City Hall is a rumor being spread by City Hall.” As her former student Sarah Schulmann reminds us, in Audre Lorde’s words, “City Hall” stands in for institutions of all kinds: schools, the justice system, the patriarchy…

If we want to act upon our cultural history and the methods through which we share it, then we need to take control of its functions and its narratives. For artists, this means creating spaces, thinking about our economies, and reflecting critically on our heritage from our point of view in the present.

It seems to me that this exhibition is an attempt to recognize and take into account this imperative. More generally, I think that both these artists are looking for strategies to deal with these questions: consciously taking charge of the tools and images of which – as womxn, students, producers – they are supposed to be the unquestioning users.

More specifically: with her paintings, her selfies, and her own body activated in the exhibition itself – in her role as a musician – Evelyn shapes the conditions of her self-representation; a circulation of medium and of information that attests to a mobile process and a subjective engagement, rather than the presentation of a finalized result.

Excerpt from text by Olga Rozenblum (full text below)
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With support from The Austrian Embassy in Sweden and Sveriges Konstföreningar