- Visual Art
- Installation
PETRO-MASCULINITY
Susanne Schmitt
27 June 2025 19:00 – 28 June 2025 00:00
28 June 2025 12:00 – 29 June 2025 00:00
29 June 2025 12:00–19:00
PETRO-MASCULINITY consists of tuning car mats into which scans of car operating instructions, profile pictures from social media showing cars, as well as further photographic material are embedded. Small objects like a fragrance tree with the scent of "New Car", 3D relief letters, and LED lights are attached to the carpets as well. Some of the car mats are stretched across the room on steel cables resembling animal skins, while others are attached to the walls of the exhibition space.
The project takes a look at the relationship between masculinity and fossil fuels – from a ironic perspective on the successful family man „Daddy“ to the dephts of far-right troll profiles on social media, which (almost) always use a vehicle as a profile picture.
The title refers to the book "Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire" by Cara Dagget, in which she analyzes the role of fossil fuels in the new authoritarian movements in the West that embrace a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Fossil Fuels contribute to making identities and can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble.
The project takes a look at the relationship between masculinity and fossil fuels – from a ironic perspective on the successful family man „Daddy“ to the dephts of far-right troll profiles on social media, which (almost) always use a vehicle as a profile picture.
The title refers to the book "Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire" by Cara Dagget, in which she analyzes the role of fossil fuels in the new authoritarian movements in the West that embrace a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Fossil Fuels contribute to making identities and can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble.
Biography
Susanne Schmitt
Susanne Schmitt (*1989 in Trier) playfully investigates the context of meaning of objects and materiality with a particular interest in objects that reflect human-object-commodity relationships.
She studied Fine Arts, Sculpture and German Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, at the Kunsthochschule Mainz and at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and has exhibited at LVX, Pavillon der Volksbühne (Berlin), NKV Wiesbaden, Schleuse, Kunst- u. Kulturstiftung Opelvillen (Rüsselsheim), Blake und Vargas (Berlin) and Curtea (Bucharest, RO). In 2022 she received a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts by the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral. She lives and works in Berlin.
She studied Fine Arts, Sculpture and German Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, at the Kunsthochschule Mainz and at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and has exhibited at LVX, Pavillon der Volksbühne (Berlin), NKV Wiesbaden, Schleuse, Kunst- u. Kulturstiftung Opelvillen (Rüsselsheim), Blake und Vargas (Berlin) and Curtea (Bucharest, RO). In 2022 she received a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts by the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral. She lives and works in Berlin.
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