RECONTEXTUALISATION 2

“Transmogrification 1/2” and “Recontextualisation” are a call to a reflective musing amid sensual evocations. A call to de-familiarise the familiar and to dismantle patriarchal fantasies and structures. The focus of these pieces lays on the fabric itself, in fact, a multitude of different fabrics (silk, cotton, jersey, viscose) were used to patch something up, which resembled a hijab. A mannequin was used for the base. 

The most integral processes in the making of these pieces were the following: isolating,reframing, regurgitating, and endlessly reproducing ideas, images, and narratives which then produced a seemingly infinite number of modified reiterations, propagating themselves through a process of continuous mutation and blending. 

By subtracting the main subject of a real woman behind the fabric and playing with the lighting and therefore the exposure of certain fabric pieces and the indistinguishableness of others I intend to compel the viewer to perform a creative act, because they have to fill in that central image from their memory and imagination. And even if its an image you have seen many times, whatever you might recall might not be the same thing that I recall. 

The re-visioned image creates a process of recontexualitsation and transmogrification, creating a series of fragmented versions of the same image that reflects on the way we reconstruct our sense of recognition and clear transformation.