impregnations
(Un)identified Flying Object reflects on the dream of humans to fly and the role of materials especially textiles in the realization of this dream. Cotton as a textile used in the first prototype aeroplanes and carbon and glass fiber textiles as the state of the art textiles for aerospace today. (Un)identified Flying Object combines these materials in an abstract structure that can or cannot be identified as a flying object. Inspiration is taken from kite designs as our first attempt to reach the skies in our childhood.
(Un)identified Flying Object, 2018
Wood, cotton-, glass- and carbon-fibre textiles
ca. 300 x 200 cm
Presented at SPACE OUT, Payerne, Switzetland
Permantly on display at Musée de l'aviation, Payerne, Switzerland
Photos: Maeva Rosset
Research on the concept of „Impregnation"
Materials: carbon-, glass-, kevlar-, and glasss-fiber fabrics and epoxy resin, 2013 - present
Presented at the exhibition Kingdom of Fools, Filter4, Basel, Switzerland, 8 - 28.May 2015
Impregnation (plural impregnations)
1. The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
2. The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
3. That with which anything is impregnated.
4. (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, rock impregnated with ore.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnation
Retained, 2015
epoxy resin, glass-fibers, water
ca. 300 x 300 cm
Drained, 2015
epoxy resin, glass-fibers
ca. 250 x 250 cm
Impregnations, 2013-2014
epoxy resin, carbon-, glass-, and flax-fibers
variable size
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