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Fragility – Identity and Social Performance

The works in this section explore the complex relationship between inner selfhood and the outward performance of identity. Confronting societal expectations, gendered decorum, and emotional fluctuations, these artists use wearable art as a medium of quiet defiance, self-acceptance, and authentic dialogue. Through repurposed containers, forged silver, stone paper, and steel, their creations turn internal vulnerabilities and masked emotions inside out—challenging rigid social scripts and celebrating the freedom to embrace our true, unpolished human condition.

Anna Talbot, Babette von Dohnanyi, Barbara Schwager, Esteban Erosky & Jeannette Knigge

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Fragility – Personal Memory and Domestic Rituals

The works in this section explore how personal history, domestic rituals, and emotional memory inhabit the intimate objects of our lives. From childhood recollections and mended clothing to discarded thrift store vessels, organic grains of rice, and etched landscapes...
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Fragility – Materiality, Erosion and Interaction

The works in this section investigate the intimate dialogue between matter, time, and human presence through erosion, tactile interaction, and transformation. Harnessing paper-thin metals, hot-formed glass, eroded polymer, rusted iron, molten textures, and delicate...
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Fragility – Intimacy, Human Connection and Vulnerability

The works in this section explore the fragile architecture of intimacy, human connection, and interpersonal bonds. Investigating sibling dynamics, shared gazes, chalk-dusted contacts, emotional attachments, and the vulnerability of being open to others, these artists...
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Fragility – The Void and the Philosophical Unknown

The works in this section navigate the profound spaces of the void, impermanence, and the philosophical unknown. Exploring hollows, apertures, in-between atmospheric states, and the quiet inevitability of dissolution, these artists engage with fragility not as a point...
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Fragility – Protection, Shelter and Armored Vulnerability

The works in this section investigate the dual nature of protection, shelter, and armored vulnerability. Exploring protective shells, soft tissue containers, embroidered domestic talismans, and glass-and-iron barriers, these artists examine how the impulse to shield...
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Fragility – Resilience and Sensitivity as Strenght

The works in this section reframe fragility not as a brittle flaw or weakness, but as an active, courageous force of resilience and sensitivity. Through broken eggshells, porcelain shards, upcycled paper, hand-dyed silk, tempered glass, and cast metals, these artists...
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Fragility – Social, Political & Collective Fragility

The works in this section confront the fragility of the social fabric, culture, and identity amidst political unrest and global crisis. From the debris of capitalism to the scars of war, these artists explore the tension between aggression and empathy, destruction and...
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Fragility – The Biological Body and Health

The works in this section investigate the visceral reality of human existence, addressing the biological body, illness, healing, and maternal care. From bone-like structures, lung motifs, and fishbone skeletons to gold-gilded bandages, postpartum marks, and resin...
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