Untitled (Portals & Globster), 2024
techniques: dye sublimation print, digital cutting
materials: fabric, laces, adhesive
techniques: dye sublimation print, digital cutting
materials: fabric, laces, adhesive, foil coating
techniques: dye sublimation print, screen print, digital cutting
materials: fabric, laces, adhesive, cotton stuffing
techniques: dye sublimation print, digital cutter
materials: fabric, laces, adhesive, foil coating
In hyper-individualistic world, where we spend more and more time online, the flat, digital image becomes all-important, setting off an irresistible urge to buy. It has exacerbated overconsumption, the misconduct of the fast fashion industry and the devaluation of textiles. This is why I am interested in looking at them after the internet. What could clothing tell us after it has left the Zalando online shop, and even after it has been worn a few times, and then been disposed?
I collect unsellable second-hand and deadstock fabrics, which I transform with analogue and digital processes. I layer, stack, cut and glue masses of textiles together, and include digital print imagery and screen print glitch. Central to my ideas is to show that our (textile) waste is the ideal postmodern metaphor, in which so-called high culture (mulberry silk fabric) and low culture (a spiderman bedsheet with low thread-count) collide. A conglomerate of ready-mades, my fabric works turn forgotten junk back into something real and graspable, and confronts us with the absurd, evil normality of consumerism. They are allowing us a moment of pause, and a different perspective, to look and understand the times we are living in, as we live it. The objects encourage the viewer to walk around them, and counter the idea that everything should be graspable to us within an instant.