Upstairs:
Alexandra Bircken “B.U.F.F.”
Opening: Friday, 02.05.2014, 6-9 pm
Exhibition: 03.05. – 28.06.2014
With “B.U.F.F.”, a new body of work by Alexandra Bircken, BQ inaugurates the exhibition space Upstairs in the rear building of the gallery. The title of the exhibition, “B.U.F.F.”, relates to the military slang term “Big Ugly Fat Fellow” for the Boing B-52, the long-range bomber of the U.S. American airforce. Yet, even when unaware of this threatening and power-political context, one may sense the authoritative impact in confrontation with the four large phallomorphic objects that are covered with a skin of black latex. This impression is due to the formal resemblance of the objects with the phallus, the first symbol of power in human history, and with all of its avatars, such as totem objects, stakes, victory columns, or technical devices of automatic machines that sometimes even appear as uncanny doubles of the subjet. As often before in her oeuvre, Alexandra Bircken’s critical interpretation of the biological/erotic body results in the exposure of unconscious structures and archetypical contents beneath subject identity.
