(Un-) Distorted Self-Perception

What Is a Body? What Truly Is My Body?

Melanie Cieslinski

September / September - 2023

Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen

Bachelor of Arts

Description

What forms can you discover? How can the body be explored to get to know oneself better and strengthen self-awareness? We worked with impressions and forms of our own bodies, which were developed into sculptural objects in a plastic process. Pouring, moulding, separating, over-moulding, compressing, stretching, dissolving, wrapping, layering, fusing: the body as a landscape experience, as a geological formation?