Claudia & Julia Müller

Claudia & Julia Müller start their artistic research by questioning simple, everyday images, which they find in their own private store, in the media, or in archives. They seek the subversive in the everyday, the obsessive in the normal. There is something uncanny behind the apparent naivety of their artistic idiom. Yet what at first sight seems amateurish actually conceals complexity. Working with series and groups of images, the artists bring about pictorial confrontations from which, as from the web of meaning between things and persons, they attempt to draw their potential. Yet despite the many subjective references, Claudia and Julia Müller are conceptual in their approach. Their main focus is on relationships, be they between people, between people and animals, or between living creatures and things. Many of their works can be placed in the energy field between the indigenous and popular on the one hand, and the alien and exotic on the other. Their themes and positions are hazardous, and they always defend them with empathy and passion.