The performance began when the audience enters the gallery and when the music started. M and P entered the gallery and stood in front of each other. M was dress in black high heels shoes, black net stocking, 23 panties or thongs and black coat. M started to taking off her first panty. As soon as she takes off panty she gave it to P, who searches through the gallery to find the photo of this particular panty. Than P hanged panty on the wall nears to the photo. When P came back in front of M, she started to take off next panty or thongs and gave it to P, who then fixed it on the wall near to proper photo. This process is repeats as long as M has panties/tangas on herself. After all M become nude under the coat. At the end M and P left the gallery, music stop and performance was ended.

The performance symbolically reanimates the intimate collection presented at the exhibition INTIMATE COLLECTION. The real presence of each pair of panties/thongs in the performance indicates that they were all used in M and P’s intimate games. This performance personalizes mass-produced artifacts, each with its own subjective and intimate history, all of which belong to the entire intimate collection.

TAKING OFF / MAGYAR MŰHELY Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 4 May 2011, duration: 22′ 36”