“Silvana is an Eastern whore, a little girl lost and the carrier of a most deadly spell. Enslaved she walks the dirty road sides of Europe, sleeps in car trunks and sheds. Dead time and again and ever brutally reborn in the wastelands she will curse every guilty one who takes her for a ride.”




Time: 20th of May until the 9th of July
Place: Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand (as part of EXIT 06, the exam exhibition of The Royal Academy of Arts where Arthur has graduated)
Duration: During the span of the exhibition the installation was partly inhabited by a various number of performers, partly left empty.
Number of performers: 8
Resumé: The installation, which also featured a 90 minutes video, explored themes of misogony and modern day slavery. The small space under the stairs by the entrance of the group exhibition was made into the filthy home of 6 women for sale and their brutal pimps. As the visitors of the galery were passing by, they would be offered to buy sexual favors.



CREDITS:

Concept and Installation: Arthur Köstler & Signa Sørensen
Performers: Arthur Köstler, Birgitte Klæbel, Camilla Bonde, Frank Bätge, Julie Arndal Engstrand, Louisa Aisin, Signa Sørensen, Zille Gellert
Photos: Arthur Köstler