London 1967: two sculpture students meet at St. Martin’s School of Art. From then on, they decide to join their lives and their art in a unique, indissoluble entity. During the subsequent forty years, calling themselves simply Gilbert & George, the two artists investigate the complexity of the human condition.

Sometimes considered provocative, their art addresses controversial issues, such as identity, sexuality, politics, and religion. Conveying the aggressiveness of today’s world and the proliferation of stresses to which the individual is constantly subjected, Gilbert & George often portray each other in their pictures, thereby declaring their vulnerability and fragility.