Treueanzug

WEARABLE SCULPTURE  
2017 Berlin

Material: textile featuring drawings, advertising slogans, footage from Berlin surveillance cameras, and prints of very important people

© Susi Hinz. Photo: Viswerk, Andrii Klymenko, Ana Jikia, Aaron Deppe, Jonny Brooking





Treueanzug is a wearable assemblage composed of drawings, supermarket slogans, surveillance imagery, and art-historical references. These elements coalesce into a visual body oscillating between intimacy and public. The work emerges from a double movement: an acknowledgment of formative artistic lineages and a critical engagement with the neoliberal paradigm of the contemporary artist — hyper-visible, commodifiable, perpetually accessible. Rather than functioning as a second skin, Treueanzug operates as a permeable structure shaped by memory and resistance. It considers how artistic practice might assert presence today — not through representation, but through embodied articulation: exposed, ambivalent, and materially grounded.