little Marta
Tools of love made for the pleasures of Marta's daily rituals.
Fashion Artefacts / Materials: Found objects and materials, copper, brass, buffalo horn, camel bone, feathers, leather, pear wood, rubber
The project is a voyeuristic intimate journey into little Marta’s life. Through little inventions and alterations she turns an ordinary routine into an extraordinary ritual. In doing this, she creates a safe space to feel beautiful, free, loved and accepted. The work speaks about creativity, about curiosity, the freedom of imagination and the liberty of making and living our own rules and realities. It’s about a perspective of life, a re-consideration of the ordinary and the normal. A world of fantasy which as well tackles the questions of luxury, self-made and re-used, re-purposed. Luxury which is described as a refinement of living, a pleasure out of the ordinary allowed to oneself, or even, quoting V&A’s exhibition ‘What is luxury? – “having the potential to unlock dreams of being somewhere or someone else, luxury exist at the boundaries of daily routines and systems but relies on notions of breaking out”. It’s the freedom of imagination and the liberty of making the world on our terms and use the things around us in a more resourceful and meaningful way. The story depicts a portrait of myself, embodying some of the characteristics I inherited from my grandma Marta.
