„In the labyrinthine corridors of the sex booth cinema Sexy Angel, we encounter the work of artist Simone Karl. She occupies this site of heterosexual male desire with an emancipatory story from her own family. At a time when divorce was unthinkable, her great-aunt took a saw to her marriage bed, splitting it in two. In Karl’s newly created multimedia installation, saw blades come together to form objects that possess both aesthetic appeal and an undercurrent of menace. They cut through the dark, oppressive setting of the sex cinema like a saw through a wooden bed. For her video works, shown in place of the usual porn films on the monitors in the booths, she draws inspiration from a found advertising image. A woman is shown licking a dangerously sharp circular saw blade. “Sharper than sharp!” the advertisement claims. Simone Karl reenacts this scene – a brutal, male sexual fantasy – from the perspective of a woman reclaiming her boundaries, literally freeing herself through sawing. This erotic relationship with the tool becomes a means of discovering and reclaiming one’s own resilience.

Night Shifts 3 was accompanied by the three Nachtwächterinnen Rosanna Graf, Lisa Klosterkötter and Gesa Troch“