Misrepresentations
The characters in Linda Stauffer‘s series
“Misrepresentations” (2020/23) are based on a script
for a puppet show that has never been performed. The
six protagonists Narrator, Marcell*, Clitoris, Basketball,
Gallerist and Lae Bloom, as well as the band Doris
Klit live in a fictional sphere. In the small town of
PND, gender does not exist, and objects and organs
are equal to humans. Here in the exhibition space,
the marionettes sit on chairs, suspended from their
controls. At this point, their limbs are still connected
to the strings. The possibility of performing the play
exists, but the characters have long since emancipated themselves from their script and become
personalities in their own right. Quite in contrast to
what the marionette actually stands for: a will-less
puppet whose scope of action is externally controlled.Johanna Vieli, 2023
Narrator, 2023,108x23x18 cm, wood, metal, papier-mâché, fabric, threads, latex, exhibition view: What would Cynthia do?, photo: Paulo Wirz