Sculpting Identity

Nina Krainer (AT)

Identity can be explored, questioned and translated into an aesthetic language or form.

For this project, an individual wardrobe serves as a “database.” Each piece of clothing is disrobed, photographed and analogously converted into an icon that constitutes the starting point of a new pattern-development process. At a first glimpse the resulting sculptural objects look like clean, digitally developed objects. The fact that everything is developed within an analogue process values craftsmanship and traditional production methods in a digitalized world.

Furthermore, external and internal data sharing and profiling on the Internet are critically examined.

Sculpting Identity / Nina Krainer (AT), Credit: tom mesic