SNOT, 2019
Screen prints on Lana acrylic paper, six-part series, 50 x 65, 360g / ´Let´s not..´
The silkscreen series SNOT consists of six images created from a 1970's Chinese comic book that takes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and recreates it graphically. Fragments taken from the comic book were used and reassembled into a collage to create the templates for the silkscreens. The series title SNOT derives from the last four letters of the exhibition's title 'Let's not..', which dealt with professional dominatrixes and their space of action and effect.
Based on the 130-year-old novel by Mark Twain, the sequential series of images takes motifs present in the book, such as the childlike and the innocent, the journey, the character in its role, thrilling adventure, survival, escape and finding home and makes them its theme while blending them together like shreds of memories that have penetrated deep into the subconscious with scenes of an BDSM session, with the intoxicating state of "headspace" (e.g. here as a recurring groaning and drooling dog snout) and the dark and magical place where everything can happen and where they finally learn the true value of love and loyalty.
Photo: Simon Vogel, Tamara Lorenz
Installation view: Martinetz