Y Liver
Y Liver was a Paris-based contemporary art duo created in 1999 by David Liver and Rugiada Cadoni. They ended their collaboration in 2013.
Biography
After receiving their diplomas from Brera Milan School of Fine Arts in 2003, they settled in Paris.They have participated in several group exhibitions across Europe, including the inaugural Prague Biennale in 2003, the Nuit Blanche in Paris in 2004, and the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008, where they were invited by the international group Com.plot.system, to present a project in the Venezuela Pavilion. In this occasion David Liver performed "Venice, David Liver eating pickles by the Ghetto", a performative phone piece.
Their first real solo exhibition was in Rome in 2001, at the Pino Casagrande Studio, in which Y Liver closed off the exhibition space while letting the public wait in the hall of the gallery. In 2007 they collaborated with the stylist Antonio Marras, known for being the director of the Kenzo house. Together they produced a performance that will be filmed, and they signed a tallit that was shown in Berlin in 2008.
It was in Berlin at Bimal Projects that their exhibition "Dein Jude" aroused the concern of passersby, shocked by the large Jewish star painted in broad daylight by David on the window looking out onto Zimmerstrasse, across from the old Gestapo headquarters. The intervention of the police raised the curiosity of the press, and vandalism became the subject of a conference-performance held in collaboration with the philosopher .