Sleeping With: Heroic Myth
2024
2024
Photos: J. Y. Arnaut
Entlastung
2023
2023
Photos: Joschua Yesni Arnaut
Filmed with the help of Leonie Kunkel
Mundgerechte Stücke
2023
2023
Photos: Joschua Yesni Arnaut
Sleeping With
2022
2022
The sculptures of the "Sleeping With" series consist of filled bed linen and concrete stands. On the bed linen there are photo prints of Justin Bieber, Hannah Montana, Rey Skywalker from Star Wars and Michael Schumacher.
The deformation of the photographic bodies through incisions and wrinkles resembles the deformation during usage.The upright position of the sculptures is based on the classical statue form, whose origins were representative purposes.
This series deals with the relationship between fans and their idols – Bed linen, designed with photographs of idols, becomes
advertising medium, fetish object and utility item in the intimate sphere of the bed.
Photos: Joschua Yesni Arnaut
Please Do Not
2022
Site specific works produced during the residency at The Kura and Contemporary Art Exhibition 2022, Kawagoe, Japan
2022
Site specific works produced during the residency at The Kura and Contemporary Art Exhibition 2022, Kawagoe, Japan
Materials:
12 used traffic cones, fake food, laminated printed paper
Produced during a two-month residency in Yorii and Kawagoe, Japan.
The unusual mixture of the ingredients of the food samples shows food most people wouldn‘t like to try. The dirty used traffic cones standing upside down on a Tatami floor are used as the dishes. The designs of the slippers out of laminated paper consists of graphic elements found on laminated signs during the stay in Japan.
The decision to use traffic cones, food samples, laminated paper signs and slippers comes from the fact that these are quite striking objects, due to their high frequency in the everydaylife in Japan. Each of them are at the first hand reasonable and logical objects, on the other hand, these objects become truly iconic when one is not used to them with such abundance.
With methods of setting these objects in different constellations to each other these new arrangements are challenging to deal with the relationships of these materials to ideas of cleanliness, old and new traditions, attention and taste.