Amazing Girls / It’s Complicated
Minda Andrén​, Zuzanna Czebatul, Karoline Dausien, Pablo Ehmer, Justin Fitzpatrick, Sophie Gogl, Megan Rooney, Chloe Seibert, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Sofia Stevi, Urara Tsuchiya, Alison Veit
Exhibition
May 18 – June 18, 2017


My body moves through spaces, not private or public, but flushed with surges of signs emptied out in their infinite circulation: excessive, obscene, like pornographic close-ups.

It is the obscenity of what no longer is obscure but inevitably visible. An end of interiority, the overexposure and transparence of the world traverses my body without obstacle. I can no longer produce the limits of my own being, can no longer play or stage myself.

(after Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication)


"Amazing girls / It’s complicated" imagines a contemporary topography of private and public spaces staged as spheres that, being permeated by pervasive acts of communication, have collapsed into perpetual visibility.

Suggesting intimacy and domesticity, unsettled by the seemingly obscene, strange, ugly or even threatening, the works gathered disseminate a feeling of unease in the face of boundless externalization and self-design. In front of the gaze of the eternally present other, they invite into an almost theatrical performance: of fractions in the psychology and physiognomy of the body as it has become the bearer of all meaning, where nothing is hidden and the universe of signs surpasses it without limits.

Coquetting and seducing with their excessive beauty, materiality and semantics, the works remind of the body as performing and coming into existence in a flux of desire and power, increasingly caught up in uncertainty, anxiety, and pleasure alike. "Amazing girls / It’s complicated" proposes the relationship of the body to society as an erotic one, where desire however, captured in infinite production and consumption cycles, is both instantly gratified and eternally unfulfilled.

Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Urara Tsichuya, Just close your eyes and imagine I haven’t evolved, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Tamuna Szirbilaze, Dreamwork in a plane and Pablo Ehmer, group show contribution beauty, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Minda Andrén,Untitled (Hands) and Sofia Stevi, Dark Room, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Minda Andrén, Untitled (Hands), Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Chloe Seibert, Untitled and Sofia Stevi, Dark Room, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Chloe Seibert, Untitled, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Sofia Stevi, Dark Room, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Justin Fitzpatrick, Brick Schoolhouse (Cat Ashtray) and Sehnsucht (For John Craxton), Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Justin Fitzpatrick, Brick Schoolhouse (Cat Ashtray), Kevin Space Vienna 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Justin Fitzpatrick, Brick Schoolhouse (Cat Ashtray), Kevin Space Vienna 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Justin Fitzpatrick, Sehnsucht (For John Craxton), Kevin Space Vienna 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, exhibition view, Zuzanna Czebatul, Gentle Reminders, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Zuzanna Czebatul, Gentle Reminder, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Zuzanna Czebatul, Gentle Reminder, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Chloe Seibert, Idea List 1, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Tamuna Szirbilaze, Dreamwork in a plane, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Pablo Ehmer, group show contribution beauty, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Urara Tsichuya, Just close your eyes and imagine I haven’t evolved, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Urara Tsichuya, Just close your eyes and imagine I haven’t evolved, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Karoline Dausien, Pillow Nr.9 (Silke), Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Megan Rooney, Tilia Americana, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Megan Rooney, Lazy blind eyes, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Alison Veit, Gantulga, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017
Amazing girls / It’s complicated, Sophie Gogl, Untitled, Kevin Space Vienna, 2017