Birgit Dieker Zwiebellook1 2017

BIRGIT DIEKER

 

EUR 4,200 + VAT

 

Zwiebellook, 2017

Collage of clothing, pins, photo, cardboard

30 x 30 cm

 

 

About this work

This ‘Onion Look’ suggests a vegetable analogy for the peeling back of the layers of the self. The emphasis is on the photographically collaged eyes, somewhat disturbingly pinned – rather than glued – into place.  There is a visual echo of the hypnotically disembodied faces which Tony Oursler uses to whisper their anxieties: we wonder what stories Dieker’s character is likely to tell…

BIRGIT DIEKER BIOGRAPHY

Berlin-based Birgit Dieker makes potently abject sculptural works which challenge how female identity has been imposed by the historically dominant patriarchy. Resisting both the aestheticizing tradition of ‘the nude’ and the suppression of female desire by social conventions, she layers and cuts used clothing to explore bodies which take strange and fragmented forms. The results invoke the surrealist spirit of moving beyond the objectified body – previously regarded as ‘natural’ – to reach the freedom of an invented body.  Dieker sees this recognition of identity as construction as ‘the search for a self that is concealed under layers of experience and stories, a kind of peeling away.’

Rosie, 2007

BIRGIT DIEKER

Rosie, 2007

EUR 30,000 + VAT

Hell und heil, 2015

BIRGIT DIEKER

Hell und heil, 2015

EUR 36,000 + VAT