My friend Antonio had a conversation with Karen Cytter at Syndicate.

Syndicate is an international platform for exhibitions, events, and publications.
Formerly London and Cologne, now headquartered in Los Angeles.
Directed by JL Murtaugh.

29. Keren Cytter
Fashions (w/ Antonio Grulli)
A collaboration with Marathon Screenings
Los Angeles US and online
Sunday 17 May, 11 PT / 13 CT / 14 ET / 19 GMT / 20 CET / 21 EET
Screening and discussion hosted on Zoom (ID 816 0657 4243)
A collaboration w/ Asha Bukojemsky and Marathon Screenings, Los Angeles

Fashions (2019) stages a theatrical fable amongst roommates in a German apartment. The film dramatizes the compression of symbolism and history through a tale of complacency, human commodity, and the genesis of contemporary neofascism.

90's free-market fever indoctrinated adolescents to the manic content creation of the 2010s. Relevance decisively conquered the concept of truth. Today, humanity’s most grievous flaws frolic together in digital rehabilitation. Terrors implanted throughout popular culture as unlockable achievement badges of value, luxury, and success.

Fashions was first commissioned by Nicolaus Schafhausen for 'Tell me about yesterday tomorrow' at the NS-Dokumentationszentrum München in late 2019. The film was additionally funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

A conversation between Keren and Antonio Grulli follows the screening.

Keren Cytter (*1977 Tel Aviv IL, lives New York US) is an artist representing social realities through experimental methods of storytelling. Cytter collaborated with Syndicate for 'Sex is not an option' at Beverly's, New York, a text for Cytter/Roebas in the 2019 Jahresgaben exhibition at Kunstverein Düsseldorf, and ‘Onanism’ at Hotelito San Rafael, Mexico City MX.

In addition to her video and performance work, Cytter is a critically acclaimed writer, having published five novels. Selected solo exhibitions include Museion (Bolzano IT, 2019), SCHLOSS (Oslo NO, 2017), Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien (Graz AT, 2016), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago US, 2015), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, (Copenhagen DK, 2014), Tate Modern (London UK, 2012), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam NL, 2011).

Antonio Grulli (*1979, La Spezia IT, lives Bologna IT) is an independent curator and art critic. He is director of contemporary art at the Palazzo Bentivoglio collection in Bologna. Grulli has collaborated with Keren Cytter for over ten years. They co-curated the festival The First Morning Fest of Unreasonable Acts (held in Bologna in 2018) and co-wrote the book Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Diary, published in 2018 by Humboldt Books (Milan).

Grulli has curated solo and group exhibitions at venues including MAMbo (Bologna IT), Viafarini (Milano IT), Museo di Castelvecchio (Verona IT), Galleria Francesca Minini Francesca Minini (Milano IT), Galleria Raffaella Cortese (Milano IT), Galleria De Foscherari (Bologna IT), Galleria P420 (Bologna IT), Galleria Tiziana Di Caro (Napoli IT), 3+1 Gallery (Lisbon PT) and project spaces Neon Cambobase (Bologna IT) and Codalunga (Vittorio Veneto IT). He has written for Flash Art, Mousse Magazine, Cura Magazine, ATP Diary, Artribune, Boite, Exibart, and Arte e Critica.