Untitled (Two Guys), 2008

The artwork pledge

• NO POVERTY
• ZERO HUNGER
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Archive
• Berlin
• Collectivism
• Colonialism
• Europe
• Everyday Life
• Fascism
• Germany
• Gun violence
• Indigenous Peoples
• Police Brutality
• Racial Segregation
• Racism
• Social
• Trauma
• United States
• Urban
• Video
• Violence

About this artwork

»Untitled [Two Guys]« is the product of close collaboration and dialog with two Berlin-Kreuzberg adolescents with a migration background. Based on a fictionalized script the two protagonists move through social spaces, and occupy these spaces aesthetically. Their acting/playing with a rich repertoire of body language, modish gestures and expansive music escalates the ambivalent relationship between the two and the camera that, following them, does not so much capture but project.

Mario Pfeifer in this work creates an exceptional visibility of the protagonists, the viewers, the author and the medium that is the global circuit of lifestyle culture. They all appear as actors; the video is the site of their conflict-ridden entanglement, in which no one ultimately exercises control or follows their interests. »Untitled [Two Guys]« captures and deconstructs the functioning of (sub)cultural codes in a "globalized society" and the mechanisms of image-production and reproduction.

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