Seditiously garish paintings, watercolours, animated films, absurd
journals, and extensive installations - all of these are only a small
part of the practice of the young artist duo Mehmet & Kazim.
Initially active in the graffiti and Hip Hop scene, both of them studied
with Markus Oehlen at the Academy in Munich. Kissing Cousins
is both an elaborately designed artist book and a detailed monograph on
their work at the same time. Supplemented by a conversation with
Florian Matzner, their pictorial strategies are shown very directly -
subtly oriented toward art history, which is then promptly thrown 'out
the window' again.