Marina Luding, born in 2000 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Currently living and working in Berlin. Her work focuses on small structures of everyday life that normally stay hidden, translating them into textiles, works, to make them visible.
In our cells we are all a collection of data stored in our DNA. We share 99.9% of that data. Only 0.1% makes us who we are. Our biological selves exist within this small part. The rest is all of us. This knitted piece is a visualization of 0.01% of our whole genome, making the sheer mass visible. Each letter of that code is depicted as a color.
01010011 01110100 01110101 01101000 01101100 is a knitted representation of a description of a chair, written by an AI, translated into a binary code, consisting only of 0s and 1s. These 0s and 1s are then represented by either black or white stitches. A pattern only a computer can read, although digital codes are more and more becoming our new reality.
collaboration with Marieke Niemann is a modular furniture design inspired by the interlocking mechanisms of sea urchin shells and the japanese art of wood joinery, focusing on sustainibility, adaptability, and tool-fee assembly.
The outfit, consisting of a blazer and suit trousers, visually represents the decay of plants. Just as the decay of plants begins from top down, the blazer disintigrates at the top. The pattern pieces detach from the seams and slide down, leaving only the basic structures behind. Only the second layer, the lining and the trousers remain almost completely intact, just as the stem of a flower, while the exterior, the framework of a leaf, remains almost to the end, the color, the uprightness fades away.
A knitted Perspective is a work that brings some of the outdoors, the nature into our living spaces. It makes us aware of details of nature we usually don't see, and the beauty that lies within it. Based on microscopic pictures from wood sections, whose patterns were then translated into knitted surfaces.
