Livre d'artiste publié pour célébrer les 20 ans de collaboration du duo.
In 2005 Peles Duo began their collaboration by opening an illegal bar in Frankfurt's red light district. The space featured wallpaper made of A3 colour copies reproducing, nearly to scale, a room of the 19th Century Peleș Castle, located in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains. Peleș Castle is an historicist castle as each room is a copy of a different architectural style, which appears to anticipate postmodernism nearly one hundred and twenty years before it started. The same act of copying or translation that birthed Peleș Castle carries over to the artist's own approach to studio production. What is realised in three-dimensions for one exhibition becomes the two-dimensional source material for the next period of production. The transition of material from 3D to 2D is simultaneously the content and material for their work. The process becomes, temporarily, the work. The act of copying is more important than the copy itself. Peles Duo dissect and reshuffle the supposedly original meaning of somewhere, something or someone, in order to question what time and culture has made of it.
Peles Duo (anciennement Peles Empire) est une collaboration entre les artistes Katharina Stöver (née en 1982 à Gießen, Allemagne) et Barbara Wolff (née en 1980 à Făgăraș, Roumanie), fondée pendant leurs études à la Städelschule de Francfort avec Wolfgang Tillmans et Michael Krebber. Elles ont commencé leur collaboration en 2005 en ouvrant un bar illégal dans le quartier rouge de Francfort. Depuis, elles gèrent des espaces d'exposition dans le cadre de leur pratique dans différents lieux (Londres, Cluj, Istanbul, Los Angeles puis Berlin depuis 2016).
