Gabi trinkaus biography definition

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Gabi Trinkaus calls herself a "media thief." She cuts up glossy magazines into small pieces, using them to make collages of portraits and city landscapes that make reference to the aesthetics of advertising and the media.

Common poses, ideals of beauty, and commodity offerings are picked up and sampled in the large works. One finds, contrary to its intended use, a foot as a fragment of the ear, hair as lips, or brand names as components of the hair.

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Needles not only often used to fix the individual parts, but also serve as a metaphor for cutting into the body and wounding. Instinctive omissions reveal the character of the body and psyche as injury in the fragmentation of the body or face.

In so doing, the susceptibility, incompleteness, the unfulfilled wishes, and vulnerability of human existence become a central issue.

In these makeovers of faces and bodies, Trinkaus generates a superficially perfect form, enticing the beholder in