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"BY EXPRESSING YOUR DEVOTION to a particular musical style and wearing the right clothes, you either become part of a language that is globally understood, or, by contrast, you refuse to partake. The power of the pop industry lies in both the commercial viability of this principle and in its media omnipresence that determines what the living out of emotions should look like. Nemerofsky Ramsay manages to live out the dream of many teenagers: he bcomes a pop star. In the process, he adopts an ambivalent attitude because his performance is so professionally executed that the line between parody and seriousness remains blurred."

Nicolas Schafhausen,
from "Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay"
in the exhibition catalogue for Stage of Life - Rhetorics of Emotion
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2006