BEAUTY ON THE EDGE

"Beauty on the Edge" addresses imposed behavioral codes, clichés, and limitations placed on women. Sixt visualizes the process of breaking away from societal expectations regarding life choices and appearances.

For her, beauty is the experience of connecting the inner self with an unlimited, formless entity. The true self has no boundaries. Thus, she metaphorically breaks through her second skin, allowing areas of her body, coated with dried healing clay, to successively crack and peel off.

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.