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I’ve gooned so hard for so long I may as well have something to show for it.

- Valentina Vaccarella

Baby I Am Mount Everest centers on a video portrait of porn star Annette Schwarz, in which she

narrates fantasy, desire, and performance, oscillating between the absurd and the intimate. Her

words — confessional, funny, self-mythologizing — form a portrait of desire as self-fashioning.

Accompanying the video are two new paintings, Rocco Siffredi and Kelly Stafford, each bearing

the subject’s autograph punctured through canvas, Fontana rerouted through the celebrity-in-

dustrial complex. Together, the works interrogate the mechanics of attention, obsession, and

notoriety, staging a dialogue between personal narrative and performative identity, and exposing

the fragility of ego in the digital era.

Supported by fake foundation, Statens Kunstfond, Bajeur.

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