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. They commissioned a flag for the rooftop featuring a still from the video The next dawn, the next spring. On the opening night the dresses from the performance were installed alongside the flag on the rooftop and viewed on a blood red sunset with the audio of the film floating out across Berlin.

Artists:

Sophie Aston, Laura Bruce, Laura Horelli/Simon Tjimbawe, Zahid Hussain, John Isaacs, Sabrina Jung, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Wolf von Kries, Ines Lechleitner, Clio MacMellan, Pätzug/Hertweck, Dana Perrotti, Lucy Powell, Jonathan Michael Ray, Theresa Robinson, Henrik Schrat, Ulrika Segerberg, Melanie Stidolph and Moira Zoitl

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.