Hedda Schattanik (*1992 in Westerstede) and Roman Szczesny (*1987 in Bensberg) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and have worked together as an artist duo since 2014. They live and work in Düsseldorf.
In their video installations they interweave cinematic elements with surreal animation, literature, acting, sculpture, photography and drawing. Their focus is on the relationship between natural and symbolic order and on existential questions of human identity. Rejecting linear narrative structures, they layer future, past and states of being.
IKS visited their exhibition AMOR FATI at Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2019), named after their video work of the same title.
Photographs from the archive
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