SCHÖPPINGEN – Austrian writer Florian Neuner and German artist Frank Werner met each other at Schöppingen in Westphalia, a village with 7000 human inhabitants and 70,000 pigs, where they both had scholarships at the Künstlerdorf (artist’s village) in winter 2006/2007. As the only recognizable gays among other novelists, artists and the local crowd, they soon made friends, spent their evenings at the local pub “Gaststätte Lohaus” and began to collaborate. One night they were asked by a woman at the pub if they were planning to marry, and the woman was quite disappointed when Neuner and Werner denied. Inspired by this strange conversation and a poultry exhibition in January, showing bird-couples such as quails and pheasants, Frank Werner suggested they act as a couple for a photo series, to fulfil the peoples’ fiction of our relationship.
With the help of 5 liters of artificial sperm and a bottle of schnapps more than 50 photographs were shot in March 2007.