Kitkat Club Portrait Extreme 9 Schnuckel 53 Page

Portrait Extreme 9 challenges the viewer to look without categorizing. It asks: What remains when the mask of the everyday is surrendered — not lost, but freely given up at the cloakroom?

Mixed media on unprimed canvas / digital capture from immersive performance Kitkat Club Portrait Extreme 9 Schnuckel 53

The "53" refers neither to age nor seat number, but to the 53rd minute of a three-hour set — that liminal moment when the dance floor exhales and true faces emerge. "Schnuckel" (a German term of endearment for a cuddly person) is used here with ironic tenderness: the subject is at once untouchable and desperately human. Portrait Extreme 9 challenges the viewer to look