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unequal-design:

“We prevent the smell of sweat by applying perfume. We raise our voices to drown opposing arguments. To avoid stuff we make stuff. We are jealous of objects, because their permanence reminds us of our own finitude. Yet we produce things, which aim to be durable, imperishable and are meant to outlast us. Frozen objects, the living dead. The contradiction is: the making of a successor, is, as well as an insurance against time, the very embodiment of our own end. All this in mind, still we award each other tangible objects to capture short-lived triumphs. We take off our shirts, some of us, so that we can stand out. This show is about this fight between shirts and skins, objects and humans.” — Nina Beier

“We prevent the smell of sweat by applying perfume. We raise our voices to drown opposing arguments. To avoid stuff we make stuff. We are jealous of objects, because their permanence reminds us of our own finitude. Yet we produce things, which aim to be durable, imperishable and are meant to outlast us. Frozen objects, the living dead. The contradiction is: the making of a successor, is, as well as an insurance against time, the very embodiment of our own end. All this in mind, still we award each other tangible objects to capture short-lived triumphs. We take off our shirts, some of us, so that we can stand out. This show is about this fight between shirts and skins, objects and humans.” — Nina Beier

11:53 pm • 2 March 2012 • 28 notes