Ein Nachmittag in Traun - Jewellery Sculpture and Sound Art

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Ursula Guttmann, Enrique Tomás

Since a while Ursula Guttmann´s work has been dealing with the body as an interface between identity and society. The skin, clothes and accessories are part of the communication between oneself and the environment. 

[x] : tension is a series of works consisting of a symbiosis between an object of jewellery and a top. This top covers what is partially hidden and is simultaneously revealing it. These hidden ones are the mentioned sculptures of jewellery which are partly situated inside and outside of the Shirt or more accurately said, which seem to have forced their way through the cloth. This penetration from the inner part touches the field of corporeal transformation. Starting from there a series of Interactive Body Objects has recently been developed. They are sighing, burping, snoozing as an impulse of communication