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‘Warm, Kalt und Sehnsucht’ (‘Warm, Cold and Longing’), the title alone sets the tone for Jakob Urban’s exhibition. Those who have been around long enough may remember ‘Gefühl und Härte’ (‘feeling and hardness’), a slogan that epitomised the Berlin lifestyle well into the 1980s. Ultimately, it also stood for the nine-month squatting at Winterfeldtstraße 20/22, which became famous thanks to the documentary film of the same title.
At one end of the wide arc that Urban draws is a series of monochrome screens: sublimation print on aluminium, a broad colour spectrum, in classic 16:9 format and barely larger than the mobile world access in your pocket. We later learn that these are profile pictures Urban takes as screenshots from a queer dating website. In just about every colour and still matching the grey Berlin sky, anonymised privacy is plastered across the filtered public sphere of social media dating.
Urban’s screens placed in an irr…
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‘Warm, Kalt und Sehnsucht’ (‘Warm, Cold and Longing’), the title alone sets the tone for Jakob Urban’s exhibition. Those who have been around long enough may remember ‘Gefühl und Härte’ (‘feeling and hardness’), a slogan that epitomised the Berlin lifestyle well into the 1980s. Ultimately, it also stood for the nine-month squatting at Winterfeldtstraße 20/22, which became famous thanks to the documentary film of the same title.
At one end of the wide arc that Urban draws is a series of monochrome screens: sublimation print on aluminium, a broad colour spectrum, in classic 16:9 format and barely larger than the mobile world access in your pocket. We later learn that these are profile pictures Urban takes as screenshots from a queer dating website. In just about every colour and still matching the grey Berlin sky, anonymised privacy is plastered across the filtered public sphere of social media dating.
Urban’s screens placed in an irr…
