Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been working together in Berlin since 2007. They produce installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Their films capture performances in front of the camera, often starting with a song, a picture, a film or a score from the near past. They upset normative historical narratives and conventions of spectatorship, as figures and actions across time are staged, layered and re-imagined. Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about the conditions of performance, the violent history of visibility, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance.
Recent solo shows include: ?Moving Backwards?, The Swiss Pavillon of the 58th Venice Biennale; ?Ongoing Experiments with Strangeness?, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2019); Improvisation télépathique?, Centre Culturel Suisse , Paris (2018); ?Everybody talks about the weather... we don?t?, Participant, New York, ?Telepathic Improvisation?, Contemporay Arts Museum, Houston (2017); ?In Memoriam of Identity?, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, ?Loving, Repeating?, Kunsthalle Vienna, ?Portrait of an Eye?, Kunstalle Zürich (2015); ?Aftershow?, CAPC, Bordeaux (2013). Their work has also been included in may group exhibitions at The Hayward Gallery, London, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Tensta Konstall, Stockholm, The New Museum, New York, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre d?art contemporain de Genève, FRAC Lorraine, Castello di Rivoli, Torino among others.