Train Track PIS

Peeing boys are a prominent motif in art history, commonly depicted as cherubs, among other things. Female-identified individuals urinating, on the other hand, are rarely depicted – and when they are, it is as taboo or fetish.

For her Jahresgabe, Hansi Fuchs has collected found pornographic images of urinating women. The photographs oscillate between shame and lust, sacred purity and everyday physicality. They show scenes that are at once vulnerable and courageous, public and intimate. With this series of works, Fuchs refers, among other things, to Andy Warhol's Oxidation Painting (1978), a work created using urine on copper powder, in which a special application technique and the hydration of the respective urinating person become the determining factor.

Fuchs’ hand-drawn (re)framings reinterpret the motifs: letters, trams, signs, festivities, and fleeting fragments situate the images in an urban landscape, as if they give the smells, movements, and situations of public space their own picture frame. The result is a small iconography of physicality that negotiates who may be seen, how, and under what conditions.