Lesbian Teletentakel #2
Künstler/in
Katrina Daschner
(geb. 1973 in Hamburg, Deutschland)
Date2022
ClassificationsObjekt
MediumStickerei, Kunsthaar, Messing, Garn auf Stoff
Dimensions200 × 140 × 9 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28505
DescriptionKatrina Daschner’s artistic acts function like threads attaching her stories, stages and characters to each other. In her textile-based works, threads are minimal yet highly visible like a pinch to wake up from a dream. She uses particular green textiles mimicking green screen technique which is used in film and television productions to allow whatever background image one desires to place behind the subject of the shooting in post-production. In her own filmic practice Daschner has used green screen textile behind glass many times for creating the sense of “analog fade ins”, like for example rinsing paint over the screen in the making of her short film “Pfauenloch” (2018), which later became works themselves (Schüttblenden, 2018)In these new works her green spaces are invitations to audience to imagine their different background story or image. Because the dominant background stories of the everyday especially about the ‘othered’ bodies of white patriarchal system need to be changed again and again with persistence and fierce imagination.
Lesbian Teletentakel (2022) is a newly commissioned textile work series produced for the Kunsthalle exhibition playing with passion and adoration for deep sea sexuality thematised in Perlenmeere (2016) and mutation of female body as in Golden Shadow (2022). Daschner also sewed many glowing jellyfishes on different textile surfaces during her exchange project she developed in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Following the desire to mutate body forms, genders and sexualities in a new space outside the fantasies of patriarchy, the rounds of deep sea creatures meet the curving forms of deep sea lesbian sexuality and create new bodies in large green textile surfaces of Lesbian Teletentakel.
Text: Övül Ö. Durmusoglu
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Wolfgang Wiedner
