Born in 1984, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
They say words are weapons. With etaïnn zwer, they're much more than that. The artist, member of the RER Q collective, speaks of “knives (for spreading butter)”. Their words, thus, are simultaneously sharp and soft, plural, shifting, fluid, flowing into each other. Or rather, they throw themselves at each other, uniting like a cluster of bodies, absorbing each other, eating each other (with butter), in a nocturnal euphoria called desire. Heated words in flying color speak of bodies becoming them, becoming flesh, slipping under the skin, slashing, dissecting, like razor blades – weapons, then, once again. etaïnn zwer's writing sweats urgency and speed in a breathless rhythm. It takes us on a wild moped ride through outdoor nightclubs that feel strangely like abandoned fairgrounds. During the 100-day residency in Clermont-Ferrand, etaïnn zwer will transform their latest publication Bleu nuit, blouson rose into embodied performative forms, anchoring their words in a present that threatens to slip away from us at any moment.