Agnes Scherer. Savoir Vivre

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Agnes Scherer creates complex pictorial work in her practice by drawing from analyses of art history, anthropology, and cultural history. For her upcoming exhibition, Scherer transformed part of the gallery into a medieval jousting tournament with an installation presented both at the Heidelberger Kunstverein and at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. In it, she problematizes the persistence of the culture of "courtly love" and its idealization of the "lady" as an object of desire and source of competition in patriarchal societies. Complete with Papier-mache horses, hollow puppet-like spectators and a new series of paintings, Scherer pierces through practices of patriarchal society to expose concepts of love and acts of environmental exploitation dating back to the Middle Ages.