VIEW IN MY ROOM
Fourteen parts of me Print
Sweden
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About The Artwork
This self-portrait could be read as an attempt to understand and accept one's own body, to study the possibility of objectivity to the subjective, and to be someone who would create a monument of oneself. I have been working with Kombucha SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast), traditionally used to produce a fermented low alcoholic beverage. This is a live material which I cultivate from the mother culture (the SCOBY) by placing it in a large tray containing tea, sugar and vinegar which allows it to grow into the shape of the tray. After a few weeks, when the grown SCOBY is around 2 cm thick, I harvest it and let it dry into a thin, rather skin like biodegradable material. In this case I let the SCOBY dry on top of fourteen plaster casts of parts of my body, in order to take the shape of me. Documentation photos by Heidrun Holzfeind.
Original Created:2020
Subjects:Science
Materials:SteelSoft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)Other
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Print:Giclee on Photo Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Sweden
The complexity and signification of the body fascinates me; how something so concrete and straightforward, can also be so complicated and difficult. How views on, and definitions of, sexuality, normality and obscenity are woven in, between and through, our physique and our subconscious. Strange, uncanny places consisting of both pain and humor, exposing something insecure or uncomfortable yet unapologetic. My practice is both conceptual and confessional, connecting the personal and the political in a contemporary context. With great focus on the process and my own body, as well as the experiences that stem from it, I aim to approach the relationship between the "body" and “ourselves". Although the idea-based content usually helps to decide the medium, I do tend to return to textile, sculpture and drawing, often using techniques and methods otherwise associated with handicraft and Pattern Cutting.
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