Künstler*innen
GATTI NUDI Bern, *2000/*2000
GATTI NUDI, ursprünglich als Punkband gegründet, ohne aber je zum Musikmachen gekommen zu sein, sind die Künstlerinnen Nina Brügger und Laura Veenemans. Ausgehend von alltäglichen Gegebenheiten schaffen sie vorwiegend Skulpturen und Videoarbeiten, in denen sie völlig normal gewordene zwischenmenschlicher Absurditäten offenlegen. Wir beobachten Hände bei der Zubereitung von Essen. Anfangs zärtlich werden die Berührungen immer vehementer. Das Video «There is only one way to hold a knife» (2023) spielt in einer Küche und wir hören einer Stimme zu, die uns die Geschichte einer Verabredung in der zermürbenden Phase zwischen Superlike und Sympathie, Nimmerwiedersehen und Fürimmervielleicht, Vertrautheit und Ausnutzung erzählt. Es ist eine Geschichte voller Erwartungen, ein Spiegel einer ganzen Generation auf der Suche nach Liebe in der seltsamen Sprache der Dating-Apps.
GATTI NUDI, originally founded as a punk band without ever playing music, are the artists Nina Brügger and Laura Veenemans. Taking inspiration from the realities of everyday life, they mainly create sculptures and video works in which they reveal interpersonal absurdities that have become completely normal. We observe hands preparing food. Initially tender, the touches become increasingly intense. The video «There is only one way to hold a knife» (2023) takes place in a kitchen and we listen to a voice telling us the story of a date in the grueling phase between superlike and sympathy, never again and maybe forever, intimacy and exploitation. It is a story full of expectations, a mirror of an entire generation in search of love in the strange language of dating apps.
Photo credits: Lea Kunz, Hansjörg Sahli
GATTI NUDI, originally founded as a punk band without ever playing music, are the artists Nina Brügger and Laura Veenemans. Taking inspiration from the realities of everyday life, they mainly create sculptures and video works in which they reveal interpersonal absurdities that have become completely normal. We observe hands preparing food. Initially tender, the touches become increasingly intense. The video «There is only one way to hold a knife» (2023) takes place in a kitchen and we listen to a voice telling us the story of a date in the grueling phase between superlike and sympathy, never again and maybe forever, intimacy and exploitation. It is a story full of expectations, a mirror of an entire generation in search of love in the strange language of dating apps.
Photo credits: Lea Kunz, Hansjörg Sahli
