For the fact of being an artist, in the rich field of meanings from producer through creator and originator to professional role lastingly colors the identity concept of EVA & ADELE.įor some ten years now, EVA & ADELE have been mingling with the public at major art scene events such as exhibition openings, art fairs, and tours. Then objections will be registered and supplementations suggested. Following an initial glance at the specific formation of EVA & ADELE’s living work of art, we will first view them as prototypes of subversive gender-bending, i.e., a practice bending or shifting the limits of social gender. The alliance of gender identit圓 and artist identity or authorship is the focus of my interest. To explain the oeuvre on the basis of the artists’ life and the life on the basis of the work is no longer feasible in the face of a work of art like EVA & ADELE. The expression “Lebenskunstwerk” (“living work of art”)2, coined by Paolo Bianchi, aptly characterizes this process by fusing the three words life, work, and art in that this blurs the eponymous categories of the analytical interpretation toolkit. ![]() Producer and product, subject and object overlap when one’s life is declared one’s work, creating constructive confusion. At the same time, this particular design for life constitutes their artistic oeuvre. Not only in words, but also and especially visually, they produce in their appearance a sexual identity that cannot be clearly defined as male or female. Grappling with their own sexuality, discernible in their motto, is an essential element of their artistic concept and plays out literally on their own bodies. ![]() Oscillating between a lifestyle motto and an advertising slogan, “Over the Boundaries of Gender” is used in interviews and everyday conversation and is also stamped on many of their drawings and paintings. “Over the Boundaries of Gender” is a central message of the artist duo EVA & ADELE. ![]() EVA & ADELE - just about “Over the Boundaries of Gender” 1
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