Toxic
Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz
Toxic shows two protagonists in an undated time, a punk figure in glitter (Ginger Brooks Takahashi) and a drag queen (Werner Hirsch), both of unclear gender and origin. They linger in an environment of glossy remains, of toxic plants and transformed ethnographic and police photography. While the punk gives a speech on toxicity, the drag queen re-enacts an interview of Jean Genet from the ‘80s and blames the filmmakers for exposing her to the police-like scenario of being filmed.
Pauline Boudry
Pauline Boudry lives and works in Berlin. She works together with Renate Lorenz. Their staged films and installations often revisit practices and materials from the past, referring to forgotten moments of queerness in history. They exhibited their works internationally: No Future/No Past (54. Venice Biennial, 2011), Toxic Play in Two Acts (South London Gallery, 2012), Aftershow (CAPC Bordeaux, 2013) and Patriarchal Poetry (Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, 2013).
Films by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (Selection)
No Future / No Past 2011 | Contagious 2010 | Salomania 2009 | N.O. Body 2008 | Normal Work 2007
Renate Lorenz
Renate Lorenz lives and works in Berlin. She works together with Pauline Boudry. Their staged films and installations often revisit practices and materials from the past, referring to forgotten moments of queerness in history. They exhibited their works internationally: No Future/No Past (54. Venice Biennial, 2011), Toxic Play in Two Acts (South London Gallery, 2012), Aftershow (CAPC Bordeaux, 2013) and Patriarchal Poetry (Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, 2013).
Films by Renate Lorenz & Boudry (Selection)
No Future / No Past 2011 | Contagious 2010 | Salomania 2009 | N.O. Body 2008 | Normal Work 2007
