Iris Musolf - Die Blaue Klinge

We are delighted to present the second solo show DIE
BLAUE KLINGE (The Blue Blade) of IRIS MUSOLF (born in
1980 in Hannover). Like in her exhibition in 2011 at Galerie
Gilla Lörcher,theartist’s focus is on the commercialisation of
beauty and sexuality. New sculptures and her brand new
video work „Becoming it“ can be explored in the exhibition.

Artist statement IRIS MUSOLF:
„ I am fascinated by the functionalisation of the cult of the
body. We are surrounded by the adoration of the unreal
body and the simulation of pleasure. I ask myself why. To
conceal something? To ban whatever is intoxicating,
disinhibited, ecstatic, abhorrent of the body? In my opinion,
pornography is certainly a part of this. “Sex sells. And so,
every industry has become a branch of the sex industry,” is
how Laurie Penny formulated it. My work expresses a
perceived cultural trauma, whose symptom is the body. The
body is a commercial resource and an industrial production
material. I see pornography as the exaggerated pleasure of
frictionless processes, in which the intimate bodily
experience is placed at the service of a production process
for profit maximisation. During this process the differences
between these bodies disappear and the bodies are turned
into stylised image surfaces. By means of technical
possibilities the human body is thus utilised as a clean foil
for commercial purposes.”

The exhibition catalogue (with an interview: Candice Breitz
in conversation with Iris Musolf) will be available shortly.
Edition: Galerie Gilla Lörcher