A sentimental disarrangement
Photography by Nadine Fraczkowski
Sometimes writing about an artist’s work feels like a betrayal – a disservice to the perceptual and evasive quality that can only imbue the viewer wordlessly. Anne Imhof’s work certainly falls under the said category, and her ever-evolving Wish You Were Gay is an exponential testament to its own magnetic inexplicability.
On Friday, next to her ongoing exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Anne dropped a ten-track album and booklet via the cult label PAN, fusing sound work, sculpture, and painting – also unveiling six videos excavated from her never-before-seen early 2000s footage. The work is built upon sentiment-driven storytelling, brushstrokes of queer kinship, passage of time, and isolation. Created at a time when Anne’s life was her work, WWYG is a moment of intimacy and disheveled autobiography, requiring nothing but an unquestioning viewer.
In collaboration with Nadine Fraczkowski
Images courtesy of the artist
Words by Evita Shrestha
