Alice Musiol
Untitled (Ohne Titel)
2017
silk, gold, silver, pearls, mud
height: approx. 175 cm
Courtesy of the artist
© VG Bildkunst, Bonn
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Alice Musiol, Ohne Titel, silk, gold, silver, pearls, mud, 2017. Courtesy of the artist © VG Bildkunst, Bonn.
The 2017 work Ohne Titel (Untitled) was created during a one-year art project initiated by the German Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Cologne on the subject of “Fleeing”. Musiol’s artistic interpretation of this subject matter was escapism. She collaborated with the Institut für historische Textilien in Cologne to make the silk mantle, which was designed in the style of a ceremonial cope. The lower part of the transparent mantle is muddied with earth and adorned with pearls and gold and silver sequins. Here, the “mantle” is reduced to its precious components. Instead of veiling, protecting, and hiding, everything is rendered “visible” beneath the transparent cloak. The muddied section is intended to symbolize a sort of “soiling” of the precious materials – and to hint at the reality outside the realm of escapism.
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Alice Musiol, Ohne Titel, silk, gold, silver, pearls, mud, 2017. Courtesy of the artist © VG Bildkunst, Bonn. Angst, keine Angst, Installation view at Times Art Center, 2021. Foto: Jens Ziehe, Berlin.