Albert Oehlen and Jonathan Meese both make paintings about
failure: of the function of art, politics and ideological
systems. Working collaboratively, they explore these terrains
in a hard-hitting and overtly humorous way. Situation
creates a highly sexed still life: a mangled-faced female
figure reduced to tits and a brain. Dealing with issues
of visual ideals and sexual politics, their cyborg superwoman
is less an archetype of perfection than the suggestive abstract
sculptures on the plinth beside her.