Ever After

Julian-Jakob Kneer

At Shore, Vienna

November 30 — January 19, 2019

In ‘Ever After‘, Julian-Jakob Kneer explores the intersections of love and death and the gamifications of the human condition. In a series of new wall works, a floor strewn with roses, and a requiem sound score whose recipient might just be the artist himself, Kneer reflects on the performative act of self-killing as an act of love and scrutinizes the psychological underpinnings and pop-cultural depictions of romantic suicide.

 

The narcissistic drive of self-immortalizing martyrdom is explored through placeholder archetypes that present the subject as both culprit and victim, agent and voyeur, lover and loser. Addressing the subjects only in reference, the works grapple with vanity, loneliness and the burden and promise of mortality and immortality.

– Nele Ruckelshausen

MARTYR (feast upon me / Alle Uhren bleiben stehen) 2019 varnish on polyurethane foam 185 x 133 x 23 cm
NEKROMANTIK (Ich bin bereit für unser’n Pakt über die Ewigkeit) 2019 varnish on polyurethane foam 185 x 133 x 23 cm
LOSVER (life is a game and love is the price) 2019 varnish on polyurethane foam 185 x 133 x 23 cm
Ever After 
Julian-Jakob Kneer
 
At Shore, Vienna
30.11.19 – 19.1.20

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