Charline von Heyl

at Friedrich Petzel Gallery (Art 43 Basel 2012)

The Antiplatonick,2011

Friendship is love without physical pleasure. We can call friendship between two people that are in theory sexually attractive, as a platonic love. The problem is that they are staying friends because they have to. They already have someone else that they are intimately involved with. Or the society forbids them to cross the border between the friends and lovers. The feelings are there, they don't go away. They just get covered up.

Anna Jóelsdóttir

Anna Jóelsdóttir  at Stux Gallery

Space/time #22

Two persons, two different worlds(masses at lower left-middle, upper right). They are different, but they are friends. The friendship is built on two things-bridges: Solidarity and Peace of Mind. Solidarity is when people have something in common: interests, purposes, enemies, etc. You get peace of mind when your friend is around and you can depend on him. You can relax and move part of the weight of the burden that presses onto your mind to your friend.The friend gives you some kind of mental relief.So, we see here a friendship in making.