Yellow Creature
Aspekte der Transformation

28.10.201707.01.2018
Klodin Erb, The Sweet Lemon Ballad, 2016, Video, 13’ 13', Videostill, ©Klodin Erb
28.10.2017
07.01.2018

Transformer – Aspekte der Travestie was the title of a still legendary exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Luzern in 1974 which raised questions about the dissolution of the gender roles. What was revolutionary then is self-evident today. A few decades later, gender stereotypes are not as exciting a topic. Today the borderline between man, animal and plant has become controversial. Currently ethics and jurisprudence, for example, are dealing with animal rights, while in philosophy, theories are being discussed about phenomena that are independent of human consciousness. As early as 1939, the British author and draughtsman Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) created Yellow Creature, a figure that in each different drawing hovered between woman and man, animal and man, while at the same time remaining gleefully true to itself. Yellow Creature has therefore been chosen as the title for the group exhibition addressing the borderline between genders and genres. Which ethical and moral categories are still valid borderlines for creatures today? Who draws those borderlines, who profits from them, and who comes to grief at them?

Artists in the exhibition: John Akomfrah, Sabian Baumann, Neïl Beloufa, Klodin Erb, Lia García, Klara Kristalova, Mervyn Peake, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Isabella Rossellini, Mika Rottenberg

Opening: 27.10., 6.30 pm
Concert Blind Butcher

curated by Fanni Fetzer

The exhibition is supported by Konstnärsnämnden.

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