Cocoon
Mehtap Baydu (1972 –)
Ontdek de krachtige werken van Mehtap Baydu, een Turkse hedendaagse kunstenaar. Haar sculpturen en installaties onderzoeken thema's als identiteit, gender en sociale kwesties – een stem vol impact in de moderne kunstwereld.
Envisioned as a video performance, the work centres on the cocoon Mehtap Baydu has knitted around her naked body using the shirts of thirty-three men with whom she interacted on a daily basis. Baydu took photos of the male owners of the shirts preceding the performance, then secluded herself in the spare space of documenta- Halle in Kassel, Germany to knit herself a cocoon with the strips she cut from these shirts. Realised without the presence of an audience in eighteen days, the performance is testified by M. Uwe Kroll and Christoph Neugebaueur’s video footage, the artist’s photographs and the cocoon she has produced.
Over dit kunstwerk
- Titel: Cocoon
- Kunstenaar: Mehtap Baydu
- Jaar: 2015
- Auteursrechtelijke status: Onder auteursrechtelijke bescherming
