Mimi Barks: “When you don’t limit yourself, there’s the risk of pissing people off. I don’t give a f*ck”

Mimi Barks is naked, covered in blood, her eyes blacked out. As a soundtrack, glitching, harsh noises and almost irritating electronic pulses grind and scrape, giving this already quite disturbing scene an extra layer of crawling unease that sounds like someone stepping on your grave. ​‘I fuck with evil, venom, death,’ repeats a looped vocal, equally alluring and repellent, before ending with a climactic scream of ​‘Revenge’. As all this is going on, sky clad and splashed with gore, Mimi Barks is hugging a goat. “The goat is a demonic symbol,” she explains. ​“You find the characteristics of The Devil in goat features. And for a lot of people, goats stand for demons, they’re evil.” The German artist is drawn to this sort of thing. There’s a grimy, alo...

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