BEAUTY ON THE EDGE

Due to the overwhelming amount of media information and consumer-driven promotion of beauty ideals—from outward appearance to tailor-made lifestyles—the real challenge today lies in perceiving the self and recognizing one's true needs, in one's own attitude towards and sense of "BEAUTY." For the concept often reveals itself beyond the noise, in small everyday discoveries, in subtle sounds on the periphery.
Artists Martina Claussen (electroacoustic sound installation) and Stefanie Sixt (video) come together to create an audiovisual installation in which they explore the boundaries of the concept of beauty. Their perspectives range from the subjective classification of socially established expectations to the simple perception of beauty that resides in the moment.
The film was developed in collaboration with electroacoustic experimental sound artist Martina Claussen. Does transience signify an awareness of one's own finitude with all its consequences, the aging process on one hand, but also the attainment of inner maturity on the other? "Transience for me includes a certain melancholy, a drama, and at the same time, a liberation. This multifacetedness interests me greatly," says Claussen.

In Stefanie Sixt's video work, objects and materials are repurposed and placed in a new context. Used breast implants, for example, are transformed into artistic tools, serving as "Objet Trouvé." They become the starting point for visual experiments, a vehicle for bodily alienation, thus reversing their original meaning into the absurd: a body shaped by norms and societal expectations, altered to the point of deformation.