Heike-Karin Föll – Kafka’s Gymnastics

Heike-Karin Föll – Kafka’s Gymnastics

In the series Kafka’s Gymnastics Heike-Karin Föll uses scotch tape to form plants collected from the urban space into mannerism-stylized monastic scripts on paper. Deploying the conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘or’ she connects real father figures like the queer theorist/activist Douglas Crimp and the well-known groupie/artist Anita Pallenberg to fictive personas like ‘Miss Nietzsche’ forging new constellations. Föll thereby unfurls imaginaries of belonging and elective kinship in dysfunctional gymnastic poses.