Cheap People Are Other People 1–5 (Part 1)

The exhibition Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt runs at the Gropius Bau until September 14. It provides an insight into Vaginal Davis' work, which has always been part of a collaborative context, to date. Since her time in Berlin, Vaginal Davis has been part of the art collective CHEAP, whose installation Choose Mutation, with Photographs by Annette Frick, is part of the show. The film CHEAP PEOPLE ARE OTHER PEOPLE 1-5 (2020) attempts to rethink the relationships between model and copy, past and present, one body and its neighbor through samples and repetitions: “The lives that people live, far from being singular, unique and without preconditions, inevitably emerge in contrast to or in imitation of others." From July, one episode of the film will be shown each month, combined with a film from the Arsenal archive, which Ms. Davis is very familiar with: from 2007 to 2018, she presented finds from it in her “Rising Stars, Falling Stars” screenings. Incidentally, anyone who misses the seats of Arsenal 2 at Potsdamer Platz - once the site of this event - will find them in the exhibition. (stss)