Verena Seibt and Clea Stracke: Weil ich dich nicht mehr liebe (Because I don't love you anymore)

On view 1 – 31 May 2014

The video piece Weil ich dich nicht mehr liebe (Because I don't love you anymore) examines an ordinary place from a new angle. It is a recycling facility, the city's central garbage collection point. Here, one can not only get rid of one's discarded furniture, but also of the memories which are attached to these objects. The video dramatises the act of throwing out things which used to be meaningful. The prosaic recycling centre becomes a space literally filled with emotional value.

Verena Seibt (*1980) und Clea Stracke (*1982), Cologne, have been collaborating since 2006. Their artistic research investigates real (urban, social, architectural or institutional) spaces and uncovers the hidden truths of these spaces with tongue-in-cheek humour.

Verena Seibt and Clea Stracke received the Stipendium für Medienkünstlerinnen des Minsteriums für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW in 2013. In this framework of this grant they realized the video "Weil ich dich nicht mehr liebe".