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There is an exhibition in prison. It is called CRACK.

Catalog of the Group exhibition at the former prison in Weimar MFA-Programme "Public Art and New Artistic Strategies" in 2015.

Catalog of the Group exhibition at the former prison in Weimar
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Unfortunately this is not about The Matrix so I will not go deep into it.

But it is interesting to consider humanity, not as the perfect (whatever

that could mean) organism, but rather as the symbiosis between the

oppressed and the oppressor. The resistance doesn’t really want to

defeat the oppressor. If it happens that the oppressor is destroyed, it

would be good if he could be resurrected. Then the whole “das Gute

gegen das Böse” ballet could start again.

What would happen if the freedom crack sucked in all suppression,

restriction or punishment?

I found the key of the former prison door as the ideal object to use as a

medium. It is an archetype of a key, I do not even need to show you a

photo of it- you know what it looks like. And it opens the “door” of the

prison, literary. Due to the technology, I was able to make an unlimited

amount of plastic replicas which can unlock the door. I called them Art

Keys and visitors could take them in exchange for whatever they think

the artwork is worth. I find it quite honest, especially the moment when

somebody exchanged an old condom for the new one. I should not say

it openly but the ‘real key is with me. A prison owner has an identical

steel copy. No one knows.

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