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Some things are too large and overpowering to be able to be understood in the present by a single person; they can only be recognised in simulation and being lived through again, in their restaging. Latefa Wiersch (*1982 in Dortmund, lives in Zurich) works with performance, sculpture, video and photography, and for several years has been creating roughly sewn puppet figures from variously coded materials such as fabric, clothing, leather, artificial hair, toys, found objects, sawn-up furniture, wire, wood and filling. Through the spatial installation of narrative scenes she breaks the social level down to an individual dimension in order to examine the past and present of post-migrant identity in Germany. The puppets – with their social and cultural markers, their familiar attributes from pop culture and their multiple and ambiguous references to contemporary history – are the doppelgängers of the artist and her social setting. From exhibition to exhibition, they are re-clothed and...More
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Some things are too large and overpowering to be able to be understood in the present by a single person; they can only be recognised in simulation and being lived through again, in their restaging. Latefa Wiersch (*1982 in Dortmund, lives in Zurich) works with performance, sculpture, video and photography, and for several years has been creating roughly sewn puppet figures from variously coded materials such as fabric, clothing, leather, artificial hair, toys, found objects, sawn-up furniture, wire, wood and filling. Through the spatial installation of narrative scenes she breaks the social level down to an individual dimension in order to examine the past and present of post-migrant identity in Germany. The puppets – with their social and cultural markers, their familiar attributes from pop culture and their multiple and ambiguous references to contemporary history – are the doppelgängers of the artist and her social setting. From exhibition to exhibition, they are re-clothed and...More
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