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Performing Artist
Getsay
Berlin, Germany
Getsay is a Berlin-based queer and nonbinary conceptual and performance artist working
internationally. Their interdisciplinary practice spans performance, sculpture, installation, and photography, moving between mediums through a research-driven, ethnographic approach grounded in lived experience.
Working with duration, endurance, and ritual, Getsay positions the body as both subject and site. Their work confronts systems that shape the body, including religion, the gender binary, institutional power, surveillance, and conditions of intimacy. Through repetition and physical strain, the body is pushed to its limits, where vulnerability, control, and agency are tested in real time.
Their work centres an investigation of memory, intimacy, and transformation. It asks how
memory can form without contact and whether intimacy can exist without touch, while exploring what it takes to rebuild the self within systems never meant to hold it.
Getsay has exhibited and performed internationally, including at Burren College of Art, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Atlanta Contemporary, Emory University, Gallery 874, Studio Hannibal, The Centre for Civil and Human Rights, and the Neue Nationalgalerie. They hold an MFA from Georgia State University and are co-founders and Creative Directors of Soft Power Studios in Berlin.
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Exalted, 2025
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Ensnared, 2025
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Artist Statement
An Account of Oneself
This durational performance centres on a two-way mirror and sustained self-confrontation. For the duration of the exhibition, I stand before the mirror, looking at myself while remaining exposed to the gaze of others.
Emerging from a year marked by mental health struggles and questions of self-care, the work explores care as an ongoing practice rather than a destination. The mirror becomes a site of survival, reflection, and return, a space where looking at oneself is not an act of judgment but of maintenance.
The audience occupies an uncertain position between observer and participant. Through the two-way mirror, presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, become intertwined. In the context of Underground Garden, the work considers how transformation begins through sustained attention, and how self-care and collective care remain deeply connected.
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