Chrischa Oswald was born in Pfarrkirchen, Germany in 1984. She's currently studying Fine Arts in Linz/Austria... (read more)
"Hautnah---t (a word trick, a mix of close to the skin and sewing the skin) is a video-performance that deals with the human desire for ultimative freedom, which is often expressed by having wings to fly away without any technical support. I sew feathers on my skin knowing that the try has to fail because we are not meant to fly, or to overcome gravity. It´s some kind of re-playing the story of Ikarus, maybe a modern Ikarus... The video is about the physical vs. the emotional pain... and what goes beyond that." (Chrischa Oswald)
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