The exhibition “Troubled Fantômes” by Charlotte Eifler (30 April – 7 June) engages with questions of colonial collecting practices, technological regimes of vision, and the conditions under which visibility is produced and negotiated.
The Kunstraum München transforms into the “Fantôme Factory” – a hybrid assemblage of museum, catwalk, and crime scene. Among other works, the fictional fashion line “Contextual Couture” presents site-specific camouflage garments that render their wearers nearly invisible within museum spaces – thereby testing the possibility of discreetly returning objects that were removed in colonial contexts.
On Saturday, 16 May, at 5 pm, Charlotte Eifler and Elle Fierce will activate works from “Contextual Couture” as part of a performative intervention that temporarily codes the space and its objects.
Charlotte Eifler (she/her) is an artist, filmmaker, and Professor of Mixed Realities at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Her artistic practice engages with politics of representation in relation to technology. Eifler’s projects employ experimental narrative strategies to interrogate existing power structures and to imagine alternative forms of historiography and social coexistence. She lives and works in Leipzig.
The work by Elle Fierce (she/they) speaks to the complexities and nuances within the tropes of Transness, Queerness, and Blackness. Approaching performance from an intersectional perspective, Fierce attempts to present alternate possibilities for connection and radical solidarity as an opportunity to explore the interconnectedness of our bodies. Fierce lives and works in London.