Keren Cytter Fashions
11/01/2020 – 21/02/2020
Eröffnung: Freitag, 10. Januar 2020, 18–21 Uhr
Opening: Friday, 10 January, 6–9pm
Galerie Nagel Draxler
Elisenstraße 4–6
50667 Köln
Öffnungszeiten / Hours:
Mittwoch – Freitag 11–18 Uhr / Wednesday – Friday 11am–6pm
Samstag 11–16 Uhr / Saturday 11am–4pm
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
„Fashion“, 2019
Leatherjacket, aluminium and plastic stand
174 x 52 x 45 cm
Photo: Simon Vogel
„Fashion“, 2019
Leatherjacket, aluminium and plastic stand
174 x 52 x 45 cm
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
“Apartment view”, 2019
Pen on paper
4 pieces, each 45,5 x 45,5 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
“Apartment view”, 2019
Pen on paper
4 pieces, each 45,5 x 45,5 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
“Apartment view”, 2019
Pen on paper
4 pieces, each 45,5 x 45,5 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
“Apartment view”, 2019
Pen on paper
4 pieces, each 45,5 x 45,5 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
“Apartment view”, 2019
Pen on paper
4 pieces, each 45,5 x 45,5 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Exhibition view, 2020
“Fashions”
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel
Press Release
Weiß ich, was ein Mensch ist?
Weiss ich, wer das weiss?
Ich weiss nicht, was ein Mensch ist
Ich kenne nur seinen Preis.
Bertolt Brecht: Das Lied von der Ware
Mit schonungsloser Direktheit, seziert Keren Cytter in ihrem Video FASHIONS menschliches Handeln und Fühlen, in der Perspektive warenförmiger Tauschlogik. Ihr Personal ist ein bürgerliches: Die Mitte der Gesellschaft, die alles einem rein am Ökonomischen ausgerichteten Binnenrational unterwirft. Auch Liebe ist nur eine Tauschbeziehung. Das neoliberale Denken auf Schienen gesetzt, das ist der Zug nach Auschwitz.
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Do I know what a person is?
Do I know who knows?
I don't know what a person is
I only know its price.
Bertolt Brecht: The song of the goods
In her video work FASHIONS Keren Cytter dissects human action and feeling in the perspective of the exchange of commodities with blunt directness. Her personas are bourgeois: the center of society. They subject everything to a purely economically oriented internal rational. Love as well is only an exchange relation. Neoliberal thinking put on tracks, this is the train to Auschwitz.
FASHIONS was supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. It is part of “Tell me about yesterday tomorrow”, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, München.