BIO Irene Anton works as a designer and an artist and studied industrial design along with fashion and textile design in Germany. She also holds a master’s degree in “Art and Context” (with a specialisation in exhibitions and art in public spaces) from the Berlin University of the Arts. She is a member of BBK Berlin and of BVBK Brandenburg (sections of the German Association of Professional Artists). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Germany, Costa Rica, Austria, Belgium and Spain, and has also been shown in several group exhibitions, symposia and residences in Germany and abroad.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE As a fashion and textile designer, Irene Anton is concerned with the consequences of globalisation: abundance and contamination. Today multinational “fast fashion” collections are often produced in sweatshops, a modern version of slavery. In the age of globalisation, the Internet is a modern medium which acts as a free democratic force with unlimited potential. But it also has a dark side, seen in cyber crime, cyber bullying and power struggles. When will the boomerang we have thrown into the air return? What does the future hold?
PROJECT Irene Anton’s project is an interventioninvasion of networks. Made out of recuperated and reused tights, her installations are made up of around 150 thin tights in a network full of knots (like basal ganglia in the brain). These textile structures are a reflection of contemporary phenomena such as globalisation and the World Wide Web – our “global brain” – which link up the entire world. The public will be invited to walk under the elevated parts of this network and to linger there. It will also be possible to handle this material and, by interacting with it, to contribute, in a sense, to creating a social network.
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