Biography
In her multidisciplinary practice, the visual artist Ivonne Thein focuses on our social and political conception of the human body. In our performance-oriented society, there is a growing tendency towards objectification, which encodes the body as an arbitrarily manipulable mass. We can do something with our body, shape it or manipulate it. Today it seems omnipresent, permeable and somehow surmountable and increasingly resembles a number of possibilities. In her cross-media work, Thein no longer understands the body as a whole, but rather fragments or manipulates it. Many of her projects deal with the fragmentary body, transience, gender, posthumanism and the traditional idea of our body image in the digital age. To do this, she uses various media such as installations, videos, photographs and sculptures.