Deborah Schamoni

Ten vintage jackets suggest the presence of a woman biker gang operating under the name ‘Violet Revs’. They are draped over chairs to look as if the women have briefly left the room. The installation draws on the myth, started in the US in the 1950s, of men on motorbikes wreaking havoc on small towns. It tapped into the fear of the ‘other’ prevalent in post-war US society. Like in much of Nicole Wermers’s work, she disrupts our expectations of gender norms. Here, she reimagines these bikers as women, referencing the biker gangs of the sixties and seventies she discovered in her research.