THE QUESTION IS - WHO ARE THEY?
Somewhere I have seen them - for real.
Considering EVA & ADELE are walking and living art, you would think that I should remember where I had seen them. Berlin? In an exhibition? At the Venice biennale where they go every year? Yes, it’ probably there where I came up across them for the first time. Surely my eyebrows rose a good few inches. It is not easy to accept this couple of walking art and yet somehow they more than attract attention.
Always identically dressed but not the kind of female clothing that my friends would wear.
They seem to be like an event within an event. You go to an opening. There they are and they too seem to be part of the show, even if they are not.
Whatever they do or wherever they go, they are « a museum ».
This all happened in 1991 - nearly 26 years ago. They met, fell in love as a man and woman. Of course they could have got married then, but didn’t . It was important for them to marry as two women. A court ruling in 2011 when Eva went before a judge to argue that despite the fact that she had a male body, her soul was not.
« I’m neither a man nor a woman » she explained. Neither is Adele. We’ve invented out own sex ».
Her birth certificate was changed and they were married as two woman.
There is very little known of how they were before. If you want to meet them, you can ask for an invitation to their home in Germany - but you too must go made-up. This is the way they always appear in public. The question is, when they are alone together, how do they appear?
Considering EVA & ADELE are walking and living art, you would think that I should remember where I had seen them. Berlin? In an exhibition? At the Venice biennale where they go every year? Yes, it’ probably there where I came up across them for the first time. Surely my eyebrows rose a good few inches. It is not easy to accept this couple of walking art and yet somehow they more than attract attention.
Always identically dressed but not the kind of female clothing that my friends would wear.
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| Just part of a photo of all their dresses |
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They seem to be like an event within an event. You go to an opening. There they are and they too seem to be part of the show, even if they are not.
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| Their "traveling car" |
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« I’m neither a man nor a woman » she explained. Neither is Adele. We’ve invented out own sex ».
Her birth certificate was changed and they were married as two woman.
There is very little known of how they were before. If you want to meet them, you can ask for an invitation to their home in Germany - but you too must go made-up. This is the way they always appear in public. The question is, when they are alone together, how do they appear?
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| All the photos taken of them. There were two books |
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