Barbara Dévény
Barbara Dévény was born and raised in southern Germany as the child of Hungarian emigrants. Her greatest salvation was the autonomous youth center scene in Saarland. For pragmatic reasons, she studied social work in Saarbrücken before returning to her original path and studying fine art in Bremen and Hamburg.
Her artistic practice revolves around the question of what we call reality – and how it emerges. Between documentation and fiction, between everyday life and absurdity, she searches for the fractures of perception: moments in which certainties begin to waver. Her interest lies in transitions and contradictions – the interweaving of political protest and private withdrawal, of memory and imagination, of fact and imagination.
In video works, photographs, collages, and installation formats, she explores how subjective perspectives shape reality. For her, stories that blur or contradict each other are the starting point for artistic reflection: they reveal the fragility of truth – and the power of images to open up new realities. Questions are asked without being answered: reality as a construction.
#SolidarityConfused
Residency 10. - 23.11.2025
#SolidarityConfused is her first installation. In her project, she explores the paradoxical alliances that emerge in digital and political spaces between queer identities and authoritarian or religious-fundamentalist ideologies. Texts, memes, screenshots, and comments from social media posts that reveal these contradictory attitudes are documented, printed on fabric, sorted into thematic clusters, and transformed into a wearable collection. The garments serve as textile storage, as mobile archives of a disturbed present. The printed texts are complemented by theoretical references to queerness, authoritarianism, and religious fanaticism. This creates an artistic reflection on the simultaneity of progressive identity politics and regressive interpretations of the world.SolidarityConfused is her first installation. In her project, she explores the paradoxical alliances that emerge in digital and political spaces between queer identities and authoritarian or religious-fundamentalist ideologies. Texts, memes, screenshots, and comments from social media posts that reveal these contradictory attitudes are documented, printed on fabric, sorted into thematic clusters, and transformed into a wearable collection. The garments serve as textile storage, as mobile archives of a disturbed present. The printed texts are complemented by theoretical references to queerness, authoritarianism, and religious fanaticism. This creates an artistic reflection on the simultaneity of progressive identity politics and regressive interpretations of the world..
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Foto: Irina Frederich
Foto: Irina Frederich
Foto: Irina Frederich
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