The artist lived as a performance

Eva, half of the German artist, Iva & Adele, died. The couple’s Instagram page announced the death of Eva on Wednesday, but it did not specify a cause. The German Press Agency DPA reported that Eva died in Berlin after receiving surgery on the cotton spine.

Eva has never revealed her real age, although she chose her wedding day as her birthday. For this reason, the Munich -based Eva & Adele’s representative, Nicole Ginsa, said in her obituary that Eva was 34 years old, one month, and 10 days.

“I left this world and entered the eternal stage,” says Instagram. “Her belief in the power of art was endless. The future.”

Eva and Adele were widely known in the art world for treatment as a performance. They have repeatedly performed in general appearances wearing similar clothes, causing more twins to appear more than romantic partners.

“Their duet, which was carefully created and documented in their self -photographs, feeds this mystery: presenting themselves as one entity embodied in two bodies, they erase the concepts of individualism and duplication to propose a wonderful unit”, “Artist and researcher Rose Bido Recently.

He was supposed to bother the sexual performance between the sexes. “Because we have female names,” Eva He said Guardian In 2011, “the female dominates. We wear super female clothes. Never trousers, it’s always very important. But we have these portable heads.”

That year, Eva moved legally and changed her gender to females in official documents after a lengthy legal mixture to do so. The change came in part until Eva and Adele were married as two women in Germany, which until 2011 did not allow people to change the sexes legally unless they change their body.

But Eva was not determined as a woman. I told Guardian“I am neither a man nor a woman. No Adele. We have invented our race.”

Inside the art world, Eva & Adele was equipment in opening receptions and insults that every two years and the art gallery. Critic Adrian Cyrle wrote in Guardian. “Whenever you go to Venice Biennial, Document, and Manifesta, there, like Woody Allen’s Zelig, and Zeliga.”

“They add a little colors,” Seerle added. They give me fun. “

Eva’s real birthday was not publicly reported, and it was not details about her upbringing or teaching. All that 2011 Guardian The profile that was able to include was the possibility that it had originated from Austria, which the writer Helen noticed in a hand because of her accent. “We came from the future, but I learned German in Vienna,” Eva said.

Instead of including exhibitions and educational grades, the CV of Eva & Adle includes details about their material sizes. (EVA: Rising 176, chest size 101, waist size 81, hip size 96, for all of this biography. They were unofficially married on April 11, 1991, when artists set up a ritual ritual at an exhibition at the Gropius Pau Museum in Berlin, which includes the works of artists from East and Western Germany.

By that time, artists have already started making videos together. But they did not feel the need to talk about their work until 1995, when their performance in the artist became “a serious advertisement to create artwork,” Eva said in 2012 interview.

In that same interview, Eva said that the audience had not always accepted their project. Watching a man entitled “The Film Status” mimics bodily harm to them while they were in a café near Bouchanwald, the site of the detention camp outside Weimar.

However, EVA & Adele has been provided with opportunities rarely granted to cross -performance performance artists. They appeared on the famous British television program Eurotrash Like characters known as eggheads, and during the 2015 Venice Biennial, they partnership with Swatch.

According to EVA, their performance occurred 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. For this reason, it was difficult to attract their art in exhibitions and museums, although they created photography, videos and more documenting their activities. But some tried, most notably Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, which launched a survey of their art in 2016.

Artists confirmed that they were from a long time ago and they often benefited from the “future” word. “We are reluctant to explain the meaning of the future,” Eva said in an interview in 2012. “We prefer everyone to explain our neurota for itself. This means primarily to be active – creating the future.”