Erb Klodin, Johnny's Foulard, 2025 (Edition)
Erb Klodin, Johnny's Foulard, 2025 (Edition)
Klodin Erb's edition is a silk scarf with a print motif from her video work Johnny Woodhead & The Nightmärlies (2022). In it, Erb creates a surreal, kaleidoscopic (nightmare) dream world. The main character, Johnny Woodhead, travels through fantastical landscapes with an oversized wooden head inspired by carnival masks. She is accompanied by Erb's own version of the song Mr. Sandman, originally by the girl group The Chordettes, whose lyrics describe an erotic (day)dream.
Formally, the video combines real and animated scenes, found footage, emojis, retro games and art quotations into a dense film collage. It intertwines 2D and 3D visual languages, low and high culture, painting and digital media. The creative process is deliberately revealed: studio settings and green screens remain visible in the video and are part of the staging. This creates a meta-level that reflects the medium and makes Erbs' ‘studio universe’ tangible as a dream factory.
Costumes play a central role in the video work, as they do in Klodin Erb's art in general: as a performative act that connects one's own identity with collective narratives. The silk scarf is also a piece of clothing. It shows Johnny Woodhead in front of glittering red shoes and blood drop emojis on a blue background. Erb's interest in fashion, fabrics, textures and art history was practically born in the cradle: she made her first fabric collages under the work table of her grandmother, a seamstress. The exhibition focuses on rarely seen early textile works and presents them as an extension of Klodin Erb's painterly oeuvre.
Formally, the video combines real and animated scenes, found footage, emojis, retro games and art quotations into a dense film collage. It intertwines 2D and 3D visual languages, low and high culture, painting and digital media. The creative process is deliberately revealed: studio settings and green screens remain visible in the video and are part of the staging. This creates a meta-level that reflects the medium and makes Erbs' ‘studio universe’ tangible as a dream factory.
Costumes play a central role in the video work, as they do in Klodin Erb's art in general: as a performative act that connects one's own identity with collective narratives. The silk scarf is also a piece of clothing. It shows Johnny Woodhead in front of glittering red shoes and blood drop emojis on a blue background. Erb's interest in fashion, fabrics, textures and art history was practically born in the cradle: she made her first fabric collages under the work table of her grandmother, a seamstress. The exhibition focuses on rarely seen early textile works and presents them as an extension of Klodin Erb's painterly oeuvre.
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