Australian
visual artist and designer Elizabeth Delfs will host an Open Studio event
during the annual DMY Berlin International Design Festival as a part of the
Satelite Program. The yearly DMY Festival exhibits the work of both renowned
and young, experimental designers. The core exhibition is accompanied by a wide
program of symposia, designer-talks and workshops, which reflect current topics
of contemporary design and to reveal necessary future trends of design and its
related disciplines.
Delfs will open her Berlin studio to the public to view
recent works of her interdisciplinary practice. Located in the nexus where
fashion and architecture collide, Delfs uses light industrial and dress
materials with textile processes to create objects which vacillate between
habitations and figurative sculpture. The enigmatic combination of material and
process evokes movement, changing mass, and shifting surface.
“My work displays a delicate sense of equipoise,
creating an unfamiliar sensuality by erupting from surfaces, recalling
corporeal and architectonic topographies. Luminous prismatic shapes tend to
hover in space, on the floor or attached to walls. Non-orientable surfaces
orchestrate interplay of reconfigurable forms which imply continuous expansion
and protracted stillness”
Delfs will also participate in Die Lange Nacht der Designstudios – the Long
Night of the Design Studios, produced in collaboration with designer network
Create Berlin and the DMY Festival where Berlin
designers, studios and galleries are invited to open their rooms that evening
and to present their new work and projects.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Originally from Fremantle in Western Australia, Delfs completed
her Bachelor of Arts in Fashion and Textile Design at Curtin University in 2006.
Delfs has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Australia, the United
States, Germany and Asia, and in 2011 relocated to Berlin. Her practice was recently
included in a survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from
Australia (2012) curated by Antoanetta Ivanova. Public
presentations include speaking as one of 40 key international creatives,
identified as leading practionners in the field of design at the prestigious AGIdeas International Design Week,
Melbourne (2011).
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