Pintilie's artistic research, which is characterised by an independent aesthetic language, makes an important contribution to the current debates on the re-evaluation of normative concepts of gender, sexuality, physical abilities and diversity. She questions the power of the moving image and its visual relationships. Against the backdrop of her personal experiences, many years of collaboration with her protagonists and the collective testing of techniques from the fields of therapy and bodywork, the artist examines the role of intimacy in everyday life.

The project unfolds in the form of an interlinked series of works that began with the film Touch Me Not, which was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2018 Berlinale. In a further step in 2022, the multimedia installation You Are Another Me. A Cathedral of the Body, which Pintilie conceived for the Romanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.

At the Württembergischer Kunstverein, the project will not only be shown for the first time in Germany in a significantly expanded form, but will also introduce its next stage with the newly created performative cinematographic installation. The new work - consisting of a film set, cameras, lighting, teleprompters, etc. - is a restaging of the cinematic apparatus that is at the centre of Pintilie's practice: the alchemical space in which reality and cinema can merge.

At the end of the exhibition, this new work will be activated by the premiere of a two-and-a-half-hour performance. Together with Pintilie and her team, the protagonists Dirk Lange and Hermann Müller invite visitors to witness the performance and the filming and to participate in the process that the artist calls emotional incubation. This process examines how temporality, memory and history are inscribed in the body and influence experiences of intimacy.