Communities in times of troubles- Outfits
Procedure
Dressed in different outfits, I took pictures, which are showing my likeness not idealized at all. On every picture I am dressed in another outfit. Every outfit is related to one of the communities I stayed at at the period of time, when I lived in Israel and Palestine in winter 2014/15. All clothes are part of my personal wardrobe, combined differently.
In the installation, the audience is confronted with such 6 life sized images of myself and one cardboard cut life sized figure, which shows me with my everyday clothes.
For the final interaction I am only wearing those clothes.
With the help of the audience I cut each picture into three pieces (head, body and legs) and combine them differently.
Concept
Confronted by my likeness in very disadvantegeous appeareances, I feel vulnerable, to expose myself to the audience not only from my best side f.i. as a well styled model.
With the different outfits, I adapted to the different communities to connect better to the members of each community and to not attract too much attention as a stranger.
Here they served me rather as a protection than as a medium to expose myself.
The costumes are generated only from my own dresses, which I am used to wear in my regular life. The exchangability of body parts are showing the arbitrariness and similarity of masquarades in the life of
people with different ideologies.
Dressed in different outfits, I took pictures, which are showing my likeness not idealized at all. On every picture I am dressed in another outfit. Every outfit is related to one of the communities I stayed at at the period of time, when I lived in Israel and Palestine in winter 2014/15. All clothes are part of my personal wardrobe, combined differently.
In the installation, the audience is confronted with such 6 life sized images of myself and one cardboard cut life sized figure, which shows me with my everyday clothes.
For the final interaction I am only wearing those clothes.
With the help of the audience I cut each picture into three pieces (head, body and legs) and combine them differently.
Concept
Confronted by my likeness in very disadvantegeous appeareances, I feel vulnerable, to expose myself to the audience not only from my best side f.i. as a well styled model.
With the different outfits, I adapted to the different communities to connect better to the members of each community and to not attract too much attention as a stranger.
Here they served me rather as a protection than as a medium to expose myself.
The costumes are generated only from my own dresses, which I am used to wear in my regular life. The exchangability of body parts are showing the arbitrariness and similarity of masquarades in the life of
people with different ideologies.