Gilbert & George have been creating art together for over half a century. Their unique oeuvre is still of unparalleled explosiveness and significance today. The two artists form a complete unity that does not distinguish between art and life.

As "Living Sculptors" they embody their art and are the subject and object of their large-scale collages and racy pictorial worlds. Their work revolves around death, hope, life, fear, sex, money and religion. They are also social themes, which they show in their contradictions: at the same time cheerful and tragic, grotesque and serious, surreal and symbolic.

This is also particularly evident in the publication. It is not only a chronicle of the pictures and exhibitions, but also of life itself. In a five-part interview with the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum, the artists reflect very personally on their decades of artistic work in East London.