A HOLE IS BEING GNAWED IN MY VITALS (says Sappho)

(2020) Performance with Fette Sans, duration: 7 hours
In „A hole is being gnawed in my vitals (says Sappho)“ Marie von Heyl and Fette Sans performed the excesses and exhaustions of language. The 7 hour long non-stop conversation circled around the redundancy of desire, the porous body, exorcisms and cravings of love and the leaking of words that cannot be taken back. The performance took place in November 2020 on the opening day of „Love Letters: Stories of Distant Proximities“ at Horse and Pony Berlin amidst work by Kasia Fudakowski and Julie Favreau. The exhibition was curated by Lea Schleiffenbaum and Marie DuPasquier.
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- 16. November 2020 – 14:58
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ISTANBUL INVENTORY
(2019) HD video, 6 min
An attempt to make sense of the self turns into an obsessive desire to take stock of the various fragemented impressions and reflections of the body in an unfamiliar environment.
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- 1. Juli 2019 – 12:47
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AFTER THE PARTY
(2018) HD video, 7 min
»After The Party« is a lament over the loss of certainty. In the video a nostalgic voice mourns a bygone era: a time before humans were bereaved of their mastery and it seemed still possible to neatly divide the world into observing subjects and objects of observation.
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- 23. Februar 2018 – 14:41
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THE ALIEN OBJECT MANIFESTO
(2016) HD video, 5 min
Building on the tradition of artist manifestos this video employs the many-voiced pronoun WE to express thoughts about subject-object relationships and gives a defiant defence of the commodity against the return of the hand-made.
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- 1. Dezember 2016 – 07:24
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The Ease of Handling

The Ease of Handling is a multi-media installation showing a series of looped videos on iPads attached to glass screens. A pair of gloved hands strokes a selection of objects, an act equally evocative of art handling, pantomime and the fetish of subject-object relations.

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- 2. September 2015 – 07:26
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The Occasional Table Series

(2014) fine art inkjet prints, 40 x 30 cm
Everyday objects covered with grey spray-paint look at a first glance as if they might be computer generated. Only on a closer look do small »flaws« or unevenness become visible. The misused use-objects exist somewhere on the cusp of being and seeming, between practicality and fetish.
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- 23. August 2014 – 06:47
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L.M.F.A.O.
2014, video installation, 1.45 min HD video, looped, dimensions variable
The moustache of this Mona Lisa reveals itself as a caterpillar when it starts moving and crawling out of the shot. The title is Internet-slang for “Laughing My Fucking Ass Off” and puns on the original title of Duchamps moustached Mona Lisa L.H.O.O.Q..
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- 20. August 2014 – 09:15
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Being an Item


(2014) wally dogs, tassels
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- 3. August 2014 – 16:52
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Interior
2012
music: Tied and Tickled Trio / Aelita
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- 2. Juli 2014 – 11:38
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Of Occasional Tables and Alternative Endings

solo show at Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK 2014
For this exhibition an on-going interest in domestic interiors and mundane objects is explored through the English term occasional table (a small, typically folding table with no specific function). The phrase resonates with the artist’s suspicion that an object may posses multiple states of being, independent from its common use. After all, if an object becomes a table only on occasion, what are its alternatives; what else may it be at other times?
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- 14. Juni 2014 – 09:44
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WYSIWYG
2014, HD video, 9.18 min
In this video the loaded term creation is explored by bringing together a chatroom conversation, a 3D modelling software, an abondened house in Scotland and a 17th century print.
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- 17. Oktober 2013 – 13:26
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WYSIWYG II


(2013) wally dog, collages
Artists at Glenfiddich, installation view, Dufftown, Scotland 2013
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- 16. Oktober 2013 – 13:01
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Cabinet

Cabinet is a series of digital prints created with the 3D modelling software Sketchup. Virtual found objects were assembled to digital installations.
(2013) fine art inkjet prints, dimensions variable
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- 12. Juli 2013 – 08:13
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Forest of Legs

Installation view, Royal Academy of Arts, 2013
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- 10. Juli 2013 – 04:52
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Interlude
digital video 3.08 min, looped
Music: Russian Dance by Tom Waits
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- 9. Juli 2013 – 07:44
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