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" ...Another work that successfully incites a similar response is an artist’s book titled Arbeitsbuch Religion from 1992. It is presented as a facsimile of a guestworker’s informational guide: on its red cover one sees the title, the artist’s name and a symbol of a handshake. Inside this ‘friendly’ cover, Krystufek recreates the layout of a pornographic magazine - complete with centrefold - depicting women in various states of bondage. Dispersed onto the amateurish looking photographs are texts, a crucifix, an advertisement for a ‘Love Machine’ and strategically placed pictograms representing the rights to vote, to work, to asylum, etc., guaranteed by the International Declaration on Human Rights. On the one hand, Krystufek invites a connection between basic human rights and an individual’s right to his/her own sexuality, no matter what form it takes and whom it victimises; on the other, it can be read as an astute statement about our society’s skewed sense of ‘rights’ given that the exploitation of, indulgence in and graphic description of sex remains primarily a man’s right." (Quelle: Elisabeth Janus: Private Functions. In: Frieze, Issue 19, November-December 1994)
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