ANNA-SOPHIE BERGER AND TEAK RAMOS
You can have my brain
#Rehearsal
With You can have my brain the REHEARSAL section of MACRO hosts Anna-Sophie Berger (Vienna, 1989) and Teak Ramos’ (Ohio, 1992) first artistic collaboration. The exhibition presents a body of work conceived and made from a jointly built archive on the subject of fashion at-large, which the two artists investigate from a social and historical perspective, whilst also delving into the realm of technical garment construction. The work takes shape in the form of a series of looks which stem from the archive built by Berger and Ramos: images, text and theory on the subjects of everyday material culture and fashion, with a somewhat serendipitous focus on the early modern era (Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries).
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, You can have my brain. Exhibition view. MACRO, 2021. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, You can have my brain. Exhibition view. MACRO, 2021. Anna-Sophie Berger, Kirschen, 2005. C-print, printed in 2021. Courtesy the artist, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, JTT, New York; Anna-Sophie Berger, Rosen, 2005. C-print, printed in 2021. Courtesy the artist, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, JTT, New York. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger, Margeriten, 2005. C-print, printed in 2021. Courtesy the artist, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, JTT, New York. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, You can have my brain. Exhibition view. MACRO, 2021. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, You can have my brain. Exhibition view. MACRO, 2021. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, You can have my brain. Exhibition view. MACRO, 2021. Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, V-Bench, 2021. Laminated wood panels, lacquer, hardware. Courtesy the artists; Suzanne Bauman (USA, 1945), The Eighteenth Century Woman, 1982. Produced by ABC Arts and Entertainment and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Video, colour, sound, 55′. Courtesy Suzanne Bauman, Jim Burroughs; Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger e Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Dieci look composti da fogli A4 stampati a laser in bianco e nero, poliestere, cotone, organza, tessuti di sartoria, zip, filo, manichini cromati. Courtesy le artiste. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger e / and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, You can have my brain. Exhibition view. MACRO, 2021. Ph. Timothy Kelly.
The looks, which are worn by ten chrome mannequins, are composed from garments made of various fabrics applied with black and white A4 print-outs sourced from the archive. Some garments focus on single historical or theoretical case studies and others take a more composite approach to the socio-cultural ramifications of bodily adornment, and its conceptualization and interpretation over time. The garments themselves draw their composition from Western fashion’s canonic repertoire (jackets, pants, skirts, dresses, aprons) and reflect an attempt to skew specific period definitions. At once visual and textual, the styled looks in the show are conceived as a single artwork, comprising both subject and object, accompanied by architectural units, as well as a video and photographs.
On the occasion of the opening, September 28 at 6:00 p.m., the artists will engage in an informal conversation involving the themes of the exhibition You can have my brain. The talk will take place on the Auditorium roof.
Curator: Luca Lo Pinto
Curatorial coordinator: Chiara C. Siravo
Exhibition coordinator: Veronica Botta
Production assistant: Giulia Caruso, Beatrice Schivo
Production and fabrication: Fabio Pennacchia
Art handlers: Fabio Pennacchia, Matteo Pompili
The exhibition is supported by Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, Austria.