From September 2016 to the beginning of 2017, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris will try to make a retrospective of the longest-lived living art work in art history: the Berliners Eva and Adele, protagonists of the performance longest in history.
Eva and Adele, the longest performance in history
The road taken by Eva and Adele has been long since its first "appearances" in 1997 until this exhibition in France, which to some extent consecrates them and gives character of conceptual art , and not of extravagance, to what they have been doing for almost 20 years.
The English word performance tries to define a kind of “living art” that, although part of the conceptual art of the 80s and 90s, has its roots in the artistic avant-garde from the early twentieth century, such as dadaism and surrealism ; and there are even historians and critics who trace it further, to the Renaissance or Greece of the fourth century BC and Adele do not go so far, they claim to have descended from a time machine in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Wall from Berlin , although its performance began more or less officially in 1997.
"Where we are is the museum", is one of the favorite phrases of this couple, a man-who is considered woman– and a woman, who have built a hermaphrodite being , bald twins who like sequined dresses, and turn their surroundings, and every daily act into continuous performance.
For them, art and life are inseparable , and that is why they have turned their life into a permanent performance, something not far from how we live with the majority of human beings years, pretending to be who we are, when we could be something else, maybe not better, but more fun, like Eva and Adele.
The couple has a relationship of more than 22 years.An anecdote of this relationship is that when they decided to marry they wanted to do it as two women, so Eva had to go to court, where she managed to convince the judge that, although her body was that of a man, her spirit was that of a woman.agreement, and Eva was able to change her gender in the birth certificate.
They have taken their work, that is, themselves, to art scenes such as the Venice Biennale, the Kassel Documentary and the Artforum fair of Berlin; but it would be necessary to point out that they have carried their art around the world and every day of their life for almost 20 years.
The exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, made from a donation made by the artists to the museum in 2013, it includes two video installations, mannequins with costumes of the famous performancistas, sculptures and photographs, and naturally the presence in the inauguration, and perhaps later, of Eva and Adele, authors and part of the performance longest in history.
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Images: C-Monster, Karen Axelrad, Chris Goldberg, Mark Barry
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