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works / 2020

Aufgescheuchte Gegenwart, performance and work in progress, Villa Massimo, Rome

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Bankleer add a human prosthesis to the actually empty core of a thing, which splits the thing through its human energy and can no longer be brought into harmony with itself. The thing becomes an ecstatic object that cannot return to the calm of the material world, but stands out from it as something alien and incomprehensible.

In the coming months, they will engage with Rome and its massive historical deposits in the form of architecture, sculptures and public spaces in order to bring them into dialog with the present through ‘new reflections’ of past spaces.

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