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Amazon Needles
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Amazon Needles
Katrina Daschner, Amazon Needles, 2024, Vergoldetes Messing, verchromtes Aluminium, Garn, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 12147
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Amazon Needles

  • Date2024
    • Artist Katrina Daschner (geboren 1973 in Hamburg)
  • Object typeSculpture
  • MediumVergoldetes Messing, verchromtes Aluminium, Garn
  • Dimensions
    Kistenmaße: 29 × 196 × 43 cm
  • Inventory number12147
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineAnkauf aus Mitteln der Galerienförderung des Bundes

  • Since the 1990s, the technique of embroidery—especially against the backdrop of craft traditions associated with femininity—has been a key form of expression in Katrina Daschner’s multimedia feminist practice. The filmmaker and artist describes the needle as “the handiest pen for jotting down my inner thoughts.” The ambiguity of this motif recurs throughout her work: Not only can a sewing needle pierce and injure; it can also join fabrics together. Using loose threads, she creates images out of nothing, evoking narratives. In Amazon Needles, Daschner presents a monumental enlargement of this small, everyday object. At times detached from the fabric, the needles themselves become sculptures and act as protagonists in a stagelike setting. In the installation, they become metaphors for swords or combative comrades who protect one another and stand together against injustice.
    • 2024 Ankauf Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien
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