Marta Biert

@martabiert

In November my parents remigrated to Brazil. As a result, I spent much of the past year going through the contents of our home, deciding what could be kept and what would have to go. The belongings organized into three categories; items to keep for myself, items to get rid of and a third more complicated category of things I had no use or space for yet too precious to let go of.

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It was while disassembling the contents of what had been my home for many years that I stumbled upon the fragments of my thesis. I have spent a substantial part of my formative years in this home. Even after moving out of my parents’ place, it remained my anchor.

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The third category, the remnants of our home, became the starting point for my thesis.
The collection functions as a new home for objects, materials and memories left without a clear destination.

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Through processes of disassembly, deconstruction, and reassembly, domestic materials become garments, framing the collection as an exploration of continuity and material memory following the dismantling of this home.

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My thesis is a tribute to the home my parents have built for me.

CREDITS

Performance Trailer: @anil_sarikaya 

Look Photos: @bylauragauch 

Video Process Documentation:
@bylauragauch & thanks to Nicola Maurizio Reisch for the support