In the Pool, Twin Trees
Ongoing project | 2K | Stereo



As part of Passage, Karin Keisu & Josse Thuresson provide an intimate insight into their artistic process and show excerpts from the ongoing video work.

The video work explores the artistic potential of sign language as a visual and embodied art form. Blending documentary and staged scenes, it follows the twin sisters and multidisciplinary performers Jamila and Amina Ouahid as they create work rooted in both sign language poetry and visual vernacular. The film offers an intimate view into the sisters’ creative process, unfolding in a series of quiet, immersive moments. At its core is a deep engagement with poetry—as a space for storytelling, identity, and resistance.

Sign language poetry is performed through hand-shapes, movement, rhythm, and facial expressions—transforming language into visual poetics. Visual vernacular, a wordless storytelling form rooted in Deaf culture, draws on mime, gesture, and cinematic techniques to convey narrative entirely through the body. Both forms reveal the expressive force of visual language beyond speech or text.

Passage is a series of artistic interventions in the exhibition hall of the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. The term passage literally refers to a spatially defined corridor, a transition or a textual excerpt and describes a fragmentary state. Between two exhibition cycles and within the existing conditions of the space, the format is dedicated to the intermediate stages of artistic production.

Text by Klara Hülskamp

Curated by Klara Hülskamp & Elisa Nessler