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New works: Home Office 2020 |
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| Cutting Up 7 Red Out. 122 x 108 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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| Cutting Up 7, Red in. 126 x 96 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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| Cutting Up 9, Red Out. 110 x 140 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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| Cutting Up 8, Red Out.123 x 116 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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| Cutting Up 8, Red in. 115 x 103 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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| Havet Silver. 95 x 145 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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| Havet Farbe. 95 x 145 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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| Cutting Up 10 The Bride. 150 x 115 cm. Foto: Kristina Strauss | ||
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Cutting Up 10 The Kid. (ca 50 x 60 cm.) Foto: Kristina Strauss |
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| These works, Home Office 2020, were made during the lockdown period in Berlin. For many weeks your only break from the isolation of your home was to meet a maximum of one other person outdoors. All cafes and restaurants closed as well as most shops. At the time I worked as a teacher at Weissensee Art University and from March 18 to mid-May we were instructed to work from home. I was stuck in my apartment in Kreuzberg. To deal with this, I began to wiew my situation in Berlin as an artist residency. I dedicated a room of my apartment to a temporary studio and started working. I had previously made a series called "Cutting Up" where I took apart all parts of a man's suit and sewed them together again as squares. I continued this but mostly only used the jackets and separated the lining parts from the parts from the outer fabric and made two different squares. I also cut up some shirts and printed a picture of the sea. The project was planned before the pandemic, but in the home office situation they got a new context. We longed for the sea, but it was impossible for us to go. And our suits and our clothes were just hanging in the closet. | ||
See more Cutting Up and older works here |
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