Charming for the Revolution examines our relationship to labour, history, economy, and materials. It gives platform to artists who persistently choose to view the world from another perspective and do not shy away from manipulating – magnifying, or on the contrary, disguising things. They temporarily transform Jester’s exhibition space into a theatrical situation, animated by a cast of vivid characters: Fibbe’s hyperbolic personification of Lady Credit or finance in drag (2023), whose sharp laughter echoes through the space, critically-minded characters from Boudry & Lorenz’s film Charming for the Revolution (2009), and Bedford’s inviting, sensual Pink Dune (2020). An extravagant and exaggerated, shapeshifting Curtain Piece (disobedient) (2023) by Boudry & Lorenz elegantly takes up space and frames the stage for this show.

 

— Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg