Sugar Makes You Sad

The exhibition brings together video works by a group of up-and-coming artists who use the moving image as a medium for their artistic practice and as the exhibition title suggests present an examination of the overarching theme of corporeality in their works.

The videos experiment with the individual experience of one’s own body or the bodies of others, be it in a public, private or social context. The material composition of the body, its materiality and plasticity, are explored not only in the context of the moving image, where the body is presented as an artistic material, but also in view of the physical possibilities afforded by our physical presence as our very own projection surface. Parallel to this year’s tour of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, the exhibition project, initiated by artists Melike Kara and Isabella Fürnkäs, offers an additional presentation and discussion platform to facilitate a dialog with young and contemporary video art.