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With sex toys, the potential for misinterpretation and ill-advised use is vast, as countless slapstick comedies illustrate. Steering clear of quick laughs, Franziska Opel deftly harnesses this anarchic power of misunderstanding to explode our perceptions and worldview. Her works are painstakingly planned experimental arrangements in which she modifies or deforms mundane objects as well as those sex toys in subtle ways or powers them up in series, making us see them with fresh eyes. They cast a spell over us with their sensual allure, while our associative circuits processing what we see spark a certain sense of irritation. Curiosity, attraction, bewilderment, shame-- expertly staged in photographs for this catalogue, the works elicit a wide range of emotions. Their energizing contradictions are elaborated by contributions from gifted writers: standalone poetic-narrative writings that reflect on several key aspects of Opel's art in offhanded yet challenging ways.

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Jenny Schä fer is a German visual artist and author.From 2008 to 2012, Schä fer completed a Bachelor's degree in Art for Teaching at Special Schools at the University of Hamburg and the HfbK Hamburg under Achim Hoops, Silke Grossmann and Alexander Rischer. She then began studying fine arts (photography) at the HfbK Hamburg under Silke Grossmann, Arne Schmitt and Katharina Gaenssler, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 2015. Schä fer works as a visual artist and author at Kü nstlerhaus FRISE in Hamburg-Ottensen. David Fletcher is an English artist who lives and works in Hamburg. His practice takes a multi-disciplinary approach but is rooted in a continued dialogue with painting, which he views as a ' first choice among many - many being infinity' . His work draws on a tension between the biographic, the epic, the sincere and the stupid. He is interested in how material properties and processes can transform and extend into the metaphorical and linguistic realm - and thus alter perception and thought. MITKO MITKOV (b. 1989, Ruse, Bulgaria) lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. He works towards translating (non-)verbal ideas and concepts into appropriate forms that vary from printed matter through sound-based pieces to fluid social constructs. He releases records under the name Dialog mit der Jugend and is founder of the Bad Boy Jesus City Swimmers Club as well as the platform Bad Boy Jesus Tape Club that navigates between contemporary music and experimental sound. Nina Lucia Groß is the curator and co-director Freiraum, Museum fü r Kunst & Gewerbe and also a PhD student of the University of Hamburg Raphael Dillhof studied art history in Vienna and lives and works as an art and architecture critic in Vienna and Hamburg. Corinna Koch is free curator of Kunstverein in Hamburg.

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