Textilkunst - Kunst mit Textil - Materialkunst - Objekte - Installationen - Textilearts and Shibori - Veronika Moos-Brochhagen - Koeln - Cologne

Cloth is what my work is based on.

Labyrinth When I start working I only have a piece of cloth. The one thing which my pieces of work have in common is this material-cloth. Additionally I deal with further materials in a way that they become part of my work.
Materials like: threads, wire, nails, wax, objects found in nature...
I employ all sorts of textile techniques: ripping, tying knots, twisting, folding, compressing, squashing, sewing....The colour is added later.

I`m interested in cloth as a symbol. Cloth is a soft material, like skin;taking nearly every shape and form it Verflechtungen adapts to all your movements and it has undergone different metamorphoseses. Reflection of protection and defence of growth and contrasts are the characteristic feature of my work.

Some examples of the way I work:
Wax, we know from batique techniques, is not just a means but a material as well. I deliberately leave the wax on the cloth and gain new textures and an overall stabilization of the cloth. So I get reliefs which rather resemble stone than cloth.

Adonisgaertchen Sewing up lengthy pieces of cloth by forming three-dimensional honeycomb-like cases is another method of shaping cloth. In this way a series of lamellar cases gradually becomes a relief. The lengthy pieces of cloth are not pulled tight so they are slightly vibrating. It shows real as well as virtual kinetics and is in motion along with the viewer.

This cloth is shaped into an object which can be put up in a room. The viewer may walk through or around it.

hausgewaechsgelb Lengthy pieces of cloth become bulges and ropes by twisting, rolling and winding threads around them. By means of these ropes I create grids, knots and tangles.
Consequently space is encircled and opened up simultaneously. Practically and symbolically the idea of tying and untying is presented.

By twisting up ends of an cushions a series of fields is created in which light and shade come into effect. The objects are filled with paper, which rustles, when being touched. Therefore they invite the viewer to touch or feel the objects. The objects stimulate all his senses. They become hedgehog- like objects and textile fossilizations, which are also organic.

Wire was partly used for tying the knots. By using nails an new dimension is achieved. Soft material is not hardened, but immediatly hits metal, being a field of pointed, aggressive elements like a criss-cross bed of Igelobjekte nails. On the other hand the sensual stimulation is just as important, it is itching. You are welcome to think of knights armors and protective spells.

My objects do not serve any special purpose, however, they may be designed for explicit situations (on order, for special occasions). I also like to work on projects with others.
Veronika Moos (Translation by Ulla Kraemer, Bergisch Gladbach)
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