Interview with EVA & ADELE
Flamboyant, audacious, eccentric and highly artistic from the core of their existence to their outer appearance. We are talking about EVA & ADELE, the Berlin-based artistic powerhouse who continue to change perceptions in gender, identity and art.
Claiming to be from the future themselves, the contemporary artist couple coined the term Futuring in 1991 turning future into a verb to refer to an unfinished time that is in the process of developing and revealing itself. Being the foundation for everything they do, Futuring, challenges people to take an active role in shaping their own future such as the artists themselves do in every aspect of their lives.
In one of their most recent projects EVA & ADELE teamed up with Swatch to create a new Swatch Art Special, titled Futuring by Eva & Adele. In every feature, from its colours to the words printed on the dial, the watch seems to reflect the flamboyant duo acting as proof of how the couple transforms all they touch into bright and colourful art.
fluoro spoke with EVA & ADELE about their role in the world of art, the ways in which they represent freedom and their partnership with Swatch. To bring you the essence of the artists, each and every word is left in it’s original form as the interview was taken, in the duo’s widely known Denglisch (German English). For those who wonder if the spelling is a tad peculiar, rest assured it isn’t. It’s EVA & ADELE.
fluoro. In your words, describe who you are?
EVA & ADELE. We are EVA & ADELE, a Living Work of Art – Walking Work of Art, a permanent Performance worldwide and lifelong since 1991. We are Hermaphrodit Twins in Art.
f. Bright, quirky, flamboyant, artistic… what other words describe the both of you?
E&A. Conceptual, performative, permanent, humorous, visionary, time travelling.
f.What do you see as your roles in the world of art?
E&A. To go over the Boundaries of Gender and to manifest the Selfinvention and the Selffiction, not only in the Art World, but in the World.
f. You’re both said to express strength, freedom and the beauty of madness. What do you think you do that represents each of these elements?
E&A. The Beauty of Madness is to make your Life as a Permanent Performance. Strength is to realize every Day until we go back into the Future. Freedom is to express your own Freedom in the middle of the Society of Today and Tomorrow.
f. How, in your eyes, has the role of gender and identity changed over the last 20 or so years?
E&A. We think that the Spreading of our Image throughout the Media or in private, which we describe as a WORK OF ART, inspired mankind for the last 24 Years. People are more open, more tolerant, more playful, more creative.
f. Your work ranges from film, painting, and photography to yourselves as art. Is there a genre of expression that you’d like to investigate that you haven’t as yet?
E&A. To play in a Hollywood Movie.
f. Why did you decide to partner with Swatch on the limited edition Swatch Art Special Futuring by Eva & Adele watch and what do you hope the wearer of the watch will feel?
E&A. Swatch proposed a Collaboration with us and guaranteed us total Freedom for the Timepiece. The Wearer could feel HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL, CRAZY, STRONG, INSPIRATIONAL [OR: INSPIRED], DIFFERENT, SENSUAL.
f. What’s in the future for EVA & ADELE?
E&A. FUTURING.
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The couple will leave anyone wondering if they are truly from the future. While it’s a future one may not experience in their lifetime, EVA & ADELE will no doubt continue to bring vibrancy, art and free nature to light in their mission of Futuring.
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