OVER 18 ONLY is a two- channel video installation that draws a parallel between the artist’s love affairs and her childhood experience of sexual abuse. Set in an intimate, confined space, the work centers around a bed. The visitor is invited to lie down on a bed, becoming part of the immersive experience. Above them, the first video, Long Time No Sex, a 7-minute playful video in which the artist writes about her fisrt year in Berlin on a toilet paper, is projected onto the ceiling, while a mixed and distorted soundtrack, based on Serge Gainsbourg‘s Je T’aime plays through headphones.
Following this, a second video, Over 18 Only plays on a small TV monitor beside the pillow. This 3-minute video focuses on the artist’s childhood sexual abuse, introducing a contrasting layer to the performance. This video installation blends the humorous, erotic, and ironic stories of love affairs in a new new city chosen to live, written in red on toilet paper, with the serious black and white narrative of violence. This randomness, along with the contrasting themes and a mixed and distorted soundtrack, evokes a complex emotional experience.
The installation Over 18 Only combines the use of an installation comprised of two videos constructing the illusion of a private space, in a exhibition frame. The one-to-one audience is invited to dive in an atmosphere of intimacy, lying on the bed to watch the stories of a woman who looks for love and sex as a survivor of sexual violence when a child.
Venues (the whole video installation)
2017: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2013: 100˚ Grade Festival. Sophiensaele. Berlin, Germany.
15th Art and Media Biennale. Wroclaw, Poland.
Month of Performance. Altes Finanzamt. Berlin, Germany.
Musterzimmer Gallery. Berlin. Germany
2012: HB Berlin. Berlin, Germany.
Agora. Berlin, Germany.
100˚ Grade. HAU/ Sophiensaele Festival. Berlin 2013.
100˚ Grade. HAU/ Sophiensaele Festival. Berlin 2013.