zweintopf

“Ever since human beings have been human, they have acted upon their environment. It is the hand, with its thumb opposable to the other fingers, that characterizes human existence in the world. This hand, peculiar to the human organism, grasps things. The world is grasped by the hand as something made up of things. And it is not merely grasped: the things grasped by the hand are brought within reach in order to be transformed.”

— What Vilém Flusser fundamentally describes here is something the artist duo zweintopf reflects on in their artistic practice. Their material sensibility is drawn to what lies beyond, to the as-if, to the and-yet-also. Here, things are reshaped, meanings and functions are shifted. Whether in a spruce forest, in urban space, or in the laundry room, zweintopf lay their hands on the cultural-historical and capitalist sediments of human life. And take pleasure in doing so.