Guided tour: Lilian Morrissey – The Audacity

Guided tour through the exhibition: Lilian Morrissey – The Audacity

Berlin-based artist Lillian Morrissey´s textile works focus on medieval kings, authoritarian politicians, oligarchs, and key figures of the New Right, expressing the backlash of a system believed to have been overcome. Her tapestries, embroidered on cotton, are the result of intensive journalistic research, but at the same time they are humorous caricatures of a time in which reality seems to have overtaken satire. Between fabric and thread, Morrissey takes up the didactic function of medieval tapestries. Morrissey confronts viewers with a visually condensed chronicle of often male-charged gestures of power. The artist´s figures see themselves as brave and righteous champions, but behind this self-image lies a brutal, egocentric, and patriarchal reality. Morrissey´s work unfolds a coherent critique of the staging of power and the dynamics of domination, whose forms change while their ideological foundations remain alarmingly constant.