Family Crinkles, Berlin
Thank you to curators Olivia Reynolds and Julia Wirxel for the invitation to Family Crinkles, a group exhibition of artists from Berlin and Cornwall at the incredible Lobe Block in Berlin.
My film The next dawn, the next spring will be screened at the private view, and the dresses from the performance will hang in the beautiful brutalist space along with new works on fabric. They have also commissioned a flag, a still from The next dawn, the next spring for the top of the extraordinary building.
The exhibition ‘Family crinkles’ brings together contemporary artistic positions that understand family as a relational and performative structure. Based on Judith Butler’s understanding of social relationships as a performative practice, family structures appear here as fluid constellations that form in the field of tension between intimacy, dependence and power. The works in painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation negotiate questions of origin, identity and electoral kinship and make family visible as a space that is characterised by vulnerability as well as resistance.