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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz (born 1972 in
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and 1963 in
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) are a Berlin-based artist duo who have worked together since 2006. They produce film installations that revisit recent and past material (a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance), with a particular focus on a critical history of the photographic and moving image itself. The duo works with performance to create embodiments which are able to conflate different times and they often create illegitimate collaborations – partly fictitious, partly cross-temporal. Their work ''To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, In Recognition of their Desperation'' (2013) is based on the eponymous 1970 score by avant-garde feminist composer
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, filmed in Funkhaus Nalepastraße, the former GDR Radio studios in Berlin, and featuring performances from the musicians Ray Aggs,
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, Catriona Shaw,
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, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and William Wheeler. The work had its premiere exhibition as part of their solo show ''Patriarchal Poetry'' at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, in Autumn 2013 and was shown at
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, New York, in a special event with the artists, Oliveros and
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in May 2014. In ''I Want'' they stage a meeting between punk poet
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, artist Sharon Hayes, and transgender- and prison-abolitionist activist
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, who, in 2010, channeled classified information about the war in
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to
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. The performers in their films are choreographers, dancers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about performance, the meaning of visibility since early modernity, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance. Recent retrospectives and solo exhibitions have included ''Improvisation télépathique'', at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018; ''Everybody talks about the weather... we don't'' at Participant Inc., New York, 2017; ''Loving, Repeating'',
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, Vienna, 2015; ''Portrait of an Eye'', Kunstalle Zürich, Zürich, 2015; ''Aftershow'', CAPC, Bordeaux, 2013; ''Toxic Play in Two Acts'',
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, 2012; ''Contagieux! Rapports contre la normalité'', Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, 2011. In 2019 Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz were invited to represent Switzerland at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2022 and 2023, the duo's installation "El cristal es mi piel" was featured in Madrid's
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. Their work has been written about by writers and critics including
André Lepecki André Lepecki (born July 15, 1965) is a writer and curator working mainly on performance studies, choreography and dramaturgy. He is a Professor and the chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York Univer ...
,
Gregg Bordowitz Gregg Bordowitz (born August 14, 1964) is a writer, artist, and activist currently working as a professor in the Video, New Media, and Animation department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Biography Gregg Bordowitz was born August ...
, Antke Engel and Mathias Danbolt. Their catalogues include ''Telepathic Improvisation'', published by
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, 2018, ''I Want'', published by Sternberg Press, 2015; ''Aftershow'', published by Sternberg Press, 2014, and ''Temporal Drag'', published by