Seelenrüsche Painting

My works are utopian and poetic portrayals and constructions of dresses. I analyse existing dress illustrations and garments, decompose and re-stage them as newly interpreted vestment objects. As examples of clothing architecture and textile sculpture, like the hollow shell of garment, the portrayal of the robe becomes a personified object. Its wearability is deliberately left behind. The functional article of daily use thus becomes a self-sufficient piece of art, the clothing`s construction is utilized as a means of communication for the wearer's identity - a personalized world of memory, concentrated and told through the collage of garments. Private mythology, fashion genre history, natural history and autobiography add up to form these textile sculptures. "žI construct the dresses of my dreams, fantasy frameworks. The dress, which acts as a second layer of skin and identity is removed and placed beside me as a sculptural object. This textile shell is a direct concern, a subtle collage of my ideas of sensual dressing and disguise, that reflects my desires, my yearning and my environment." As a viewer, you see opulent material bacchanalia, assembled in meticulously detailed work. Complex, artistically woven filigree networks proliferate here, a symbiosis of art, fashion and design, in painting or as objects of leather, fabric and papier mâché. The works are not stationary, they stand alone or float in free space. The theatrical appearance of the garments in their solidified materiality lays the grounds for both indulgence and bewilderment. The exaggerated artificiality of these narrative textiles astonishes, while simultaneously provoking irony and humour. The perception of fiction and reality is blurred and becomes an enchanting eccentric labyrinth. Thus a game of deception starts, oscillating between the presence and absence of people, memories, traces, symbols and signals. Wherever you look there are ornaments which, like tattoos, amalgamate to become a second layer of skin. And at the same time, the exuberant mixture of these images fuses everyday objects with the essence of fairytale fantasy. My work shows the pure delight of beautiful abundance and convoluted opulence - a way of getting lost in the seemingly scurrilous world of the image. And in addition, an urge, an almost manic passion for collecting personal objects, is combined with the intention to find calm in the meditative production of patterns.