Childhood Storage

Photographs inspired by the fact that mothers often preserve their child's bedroom from the moment the child leaves home, creating a kind of physical storage for childhood. It presents ideas of how we are physically and psychologically shaped (and haunted) by our childhood.

Ziesche was invited to the group exhibition ‘Out of Fashion’ at Rot(t)terdam, Cultural Supermarket (27.01.-05.02.11) to produce a series of 72 photographs relating to ‘Childhood Storage’ and a maquette of her childhood bedroom. Other designers at the exhibition included agnès b., Maison Martin Margiela, BLESS, Prada. The exhibition was part of the 40th International Film Festival in Rotterdam, which screened her film ‘Childhood Storage’. For the first time the International Film Festival Rotterdam had integrated a fashion section.

Ziesch was commissioned to produce an exact replica of her childhood bedroom (1:1) for the group exhibition ‘SuperBodies 3de Triennial of Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design’ in Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium (04.02. – 27.05.2012), which was shown along her video ‘Childhood Storage’.

The second exhibition is called ‘Out of Fashion: Maastricht Edition’ and is the result of a collaboration between the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Premsela: The Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, Glamcult Studio and NAIM/Bureau Europa. The exhibition is showing 4 of Ziesche's films as well as the series of photographs. Designers agnès b. and Maison Martin Margiela have compiled a film programme of their own work especially for Out of Fashion and are showing an exclusive installation. In addition, work can be seen from designers including BLESS, Todd Cole, Prada, Freudenthal/Verhagen.