Hommage to Hannah Höch
2023, object-assemblagehand-blown glass, bronze, copper,
brass, patina, stainless steel
Curator and gallerist, Ellen Maurer Zilioli, invited me to take part in her curatorial project
Gone Astray / Auf Abwegen – jewelry and utensils on the frindge of reason.
The exhibition presented a survey of positions on how wearable art, sculptural objects,
and functional tools can confront — and at times satirize — established aesthetic norms,
classical canons, craft traditions as also everyday clichés.
The exhibition travelled to Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim (DE) in 2023
and to CODA Museum (NL) in 2024.
_ catalogue by Arnoldsche Art Publishers
In response to this challenge, I created a work in dialogue with the painting
“Die Braut” (oder Pandora) from 1924/27 by Hannah Höch and the way the
artist positioned herself in confrontation with the society of her time.
Drawing on my recent artistic research into self-determination and the emancipation of the female body, the piece deconstructs the image of the painting, reducing it to a head, an abstract white body, and an enlarged funnel.
inside view, funnel
As in Höch’s painting, societal expectations and preconceptions—hovering almost invisibly in the air—are channeled through the funnel into the female vessel of head and body. The glass head itself is movable, secured within the white body by a stainless steel spiral, allowing it to rotate slightly left ︎︎︎︎︎︎ right, as if contemplating, resisting, or negotiating the pressures imposed upon it.
exhibition view, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, 2023