Childhood storage: maquette

Exact model of childhood bedroom 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 and asks whether every decision and action is determined by an unbroken chain of prior experience; in what sense adulthood is the consequence of childhood. In what form is the childhood room actually stored? The mother literalises what the child has internalised, which goes on evolving into new forms.

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’.

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