Paradise

In Paradise Adam films himself in 2 channels showing his body as well as the same site in very different perspectives. The video cross-fades hyper-personal biographical events such as Adam’s transition with hyper-mythological topics such as the Garden Eden as well as with natural disasters such as drought and wild fire. Paradise deals with binarities: live and death, verticality and horizontality, movement and stillness, activity and passivity, gender; shot in one take, it is at the same time the documentation of a performance and an action staged for the camera. Paradise is installed as a two channel video projection.

As part of Adam’s solo exhibition Elsewhere I Am You (2025) at Galerie Wedding in Berlin, Paradise was presented as a live concert.

Musician and sound artist Judith Hamann, who composed the original soundtrack for the video, performed a cello set in response to the installation.

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