CARO BÄRTLING
CARO BÄRTLING

tries to create favourites, which rouse memories in us even though it is the first time we see them. In so doing she turns a detail from a damask tablecloth into a buttonholeflower, a napkin into a collar and instead of textile she embroiders through silver. Even the smallest textile or packaging remnants get, conserved under a plastic layer, a one-man show as “Badges textile” or “Badges Gold wert”. Her inspiration is the everyday life and its historical development, “as good as old” her motto. By that she attempts to reintegrate things in our lives, which seem to be not up to date anymore, but have a certain value in her eyes. Needlework for instance is as good as gold to her, combined with silver it turns to wearable treasures.

AS GOOD AS OLD, AS GOOD AS GOLD


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