Brandfragmente 2025
steel and wood
Dimensions: Variable
For the series Brandfragmente, I worked with the geometric and floral motifs of 'Dragon Carpet'—a 17th-century wool-knotted carpet currently held in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin (see the final image). Brandfragment#1 (please refer to the second image) recreates the shape of the carpet in thirteen wooden planes connected by two metal rods. The work reinterprets and reproduces the distinctive fragmentary effect of the Dragon Carpet, which is both aesthetic and disconcerting.
Brandfragmente #2, #3, #4 and #5 (please refer to the second image) are a refashioning of four floral motifs from the Dragon Carpet. Wooden discs are cut in the precise shapes of these motifs, layered on top of each other, and partially placed in steel casings.
Two-dimensional motifs are transformed into three-dimensional sculptures in an effort to highlight not just the ornamental but the architectural (structural) qualities of carpets. The series reflects on the Dragon Carpet as an artefact that symbolises the interplay between the ornamental and the structural, between the organic (wood) and the industrial (metal) and of course between destruction and preservation.