Photo-printed carpet, hanging, wallpaper, fragrance diffuser, Städtische Sammlung Erlangen
Claudia Holzinger's installations usually use her own body as a motif. Her often bizarre depictions quote trash and pop culture and question ideals of beauty and established systems of power. Claudia Holzinger's works show us in a provocative and very funny way how body images and role concepts are perceived in society. The work Helpless when she smiles - incidentally also the title of a Backstreet Boys song - is undergoing a re-enactment at Kunstpalais. The installation was shown for the first time at the AdBK Nuremberg. The mosaic wall from the academy appears here in the form of a photo wallpaper.
The photo-printed carpet is shown in front of it, based on the traditional production and presentation of wall hangings. Holzinger poses provocatively and anonymously on sheepskins in a spandex suit, as her face is also covered by the morphsuit. In this way, she abstracts and reduces the display of the female body, but also quotes classical traditions of female body representation, in which female figures often do not appear as individual persons, but are objectified.
