Photos: Jonathan Boussaert, Pixelpoint
Festival, Werner Maschmann, Thomas Bruns, CR&SH
ABOUT
"Wende-Mantel" has been created for the context of the 3rd berlin biennial (bb3), 2004. The focus of the bb3 artisitc director Ute Meta Bauer was on the city Berlin to reflect about cultural, social and political situation and changes since the fall of the Berlin Wall / the iron curtain in 1989.
"Wende-Mantel" is a reversable cloak, which can be worn inside out. It is a coat of change – of two sides, and of their fusion. In Germany, the reunification of East and West, and the fall of the wall is often referred to as the "Wende".
This garment consists of compressed fiber used for shipping art and of silk lining and eastern textiles. It is about contrasts: worthless and precious, dull and shiny, fragility and strength. It can be wrapped around the body three different ways – always covering everything but the eyes and fingertips. The seams remain visible and the idea behind the seam is to identify tears in the fabric of society and history, in order to then stitch them back together again. It referred to the city whose fabric shows its tears and seams.
MATERIAL
Outside: "Nadelfilz" (compressed fiber)
Inside: material varies; silk and textiles with references to the East
Limited edition: 3 + 1 AP.
Please note: Each edition varies in textiles and dimension – it is customized and hand-made. I.e. we speak here from a rather unique edition!
CREDITS
embodiment : Wende-Mantel, 2004
Concept: Regina Maria Möller
Garment production with the cooperation of Vera Wieczorek
Photos:
Werner Maschmann, Berlin
Thomas Bruns
Pixelpoint Festival
Jonathan Boussaert
Regina Maria Möller
Photos with model:
Make-up and hair: Christina Roth, Berlin
Model: Sarah, Typeface Berlin
EXHIBITION VENUES
Wende-Mantel has been exhibited in different modes of presentation:
bb3, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin 2004
Performance Jam, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin 2004
trans-form, Galerie Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 2005
Dresscode, Pixelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica, Slowenia, 2006
Check-in-Europe: Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art, EPO, Munich, 2006
embodiment : seam, solo exhibition, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France 2007
Living Box, Hab Galerie, Nantes, 2008
home / work / dress, Passerelle - Cenre D'Art Contemporain, Brest, France, 2012
Die Motte / The Moth, solo exhibition, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, 2018
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