In BASTARDS (BELIEVERS), Julian-Jakob Kneer presents monochrome printed silver mirrors with custom-made galvanized frames. Each one features a layered collage of three seemingly random movie posters. Through crossbreeding ready-made opposing narratives and by sifting through themes of morality and the foundational principles of the human psychology, Kneer’s “movie posters” become contemporary zeitgeist artifacts that confront our supposed socio-cultural binaries of right and wrong, art and pop, and sickness and health. Kneer breaks them down into their constituent parts, and releases them for recasting in a value-free queer space.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. No artist desires to prove anything. [...] No artist has ethical sympathies. [...] The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. [...]
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. 
All art is quite useless.


– Oscar Wilde, PREFACE TO THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

It's fun being beautiful. It's awesome.
– VICTORIA SILVSTEDT