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Man Has the Phallus / Woman Is the Phallus

Man Has the Phallus / Woman Is the Phallus
Man Has the Phallus / Woman Is the Phallus
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Man Has the Phallus / Woman Is the Phallus
EVA & ADELE, Man Has the Phallus / Woman Is the Phallus, 1993/2019, 2 C-Prints von 2 vergrößerten Polaroids, in Künstlerrahmen, Rahmenmaße: 53,5 × 86 × 3,5 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 11858
© EVA & ADELE
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Man Has the Phallus / Woman Is the Phallus

  • Date1993/2019
    • Artist EVA & ADELE (Auftritte seit 1989)
  • Object typePhoto
  • Medium2 C-prints of 2 enlarged Polaroids, artist frames
  • Dimensions
    Rahmenmaße: 53,5 × 86 × 3,5 cm
  • SignatureSign., bez. und dat. auf der Rückseite
  • Inventory number11858
  • Location Belvedere 21

  • Wearing identical, eye-catching extravagant costumes and sporting shaved heads, Berlin-based artists EVA & ADELE staged their bodies as living works of art. Their public appearances—at biennials, exhibition openings, and art fairs—were conceived as ongoing performances. “Wherever we are is a museum” became their guiding principle, which they followed from the early 1990s until Eva’s death in the spring of 2025. Through their appearance and their claim to come from the future, they initiated a discourse on nonbinarity, identity construction, and queerness, making them far ahead of their time. The duo also worked across the media of painting, printmaking, photography, video, and installation. The two-part work Man Has the Phallus / Woman Is the Phallus draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who explored the desire for the Other and assigned gender roles.
    • 2019 Ankauf Nicole Gnesa Galerie, München
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