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Sabina Baumann: Untitled, 2009; Being Marvin, 2008; Being Me You It, 2009
The three drawings from Sabina Baumann’s “Steineserie“ / “Stones Series” evoke a totally different sort of communal utopia. A massive stone is at the centre of each drawing, arbitrarily vested with garments, accessories, or genital parts. The artist explains: “The stones, on the one hand, can be read as the matter of Planet Earth, on the other hand as live bodies. The signs can be interpreted as standing for our categories/languages/ideologies which are deposited within ourselves and which have an effect on the outside.” The drawing should remind us that what we embody may be viewed as accidental, we could easily be something different, something else. That means that at any time we are something else, too, something we maybe would rather not be and from which we want to distinguish ourselves. “The picture ‘Being Me, You, It’ e.g. is a picture nobody, for one or the other reason, wants to identify him- or herself with. Maybe because it is festooned by a swastika, or by a lesbian sign, or by parts of the body evoking pornographic associations. But it is exactly this assembly of features that raises the questions which are of interest to me: How can all these categories and realities co-exist without conflict? How can fronts or boundaries be dissolved and how can one discern the belief in something common? This way, the stone can be seen as a utopian individual all parts of which coexist, are not suppressed, and regarded equal, as im/possible identity or utopian planet, carrying everything on it as im/possible society.” (Sabina Baumann)
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im/possible community