15/07/2022
As a further drawing and simultaneously sculptural position, we added Superspreaderspiritsuit (2020) by Ogar Grafe, an activist shamanic Mother Goddess ritual and show clothing with an embroidered head mask, decorated with an allover of Ogar’s texts. The font ornament was applied using blue marker in months of work. Ogar, who as an author and performer is in the tradition of Edith Sitwell, refers in this work to folk art from different regions, to religious traditions, and to the art of mentally ill people. He combines a conceptual practice with autodidactic strategies. At the same time, in a kind of counter-magic his work claims back feminist, progressive, and spiritual ideas that were hijacked by the New Right and the tin foil hat faction in identity debates. Oliver Koerner von Gustorf
