patterns istanbul

The project “Patterns” is based on the idea of overlapping and matching the body – the boundary as to the external world – to territory. By conceptually positioning the body over the territory, it is possible to make a
body-territory mapping, through clothing.

Both, nature and politics delimit/cut territories, move frontiers. But behind the moving of lines, the power-games and strategies, extremely deep and harsh signs are hidden. Cutting and redesigning territories, as for example the Oder-Neisse line between Poland and Germany or those borough artificially/specifically designed for certain social classes – Mirafiori in Turin or Scampia in Naples – is related to political as well as social, logics and necessities; there are marks left in history and memory, on our skins, in our bodies.

http://www.borders.de/patterns/index_eng.htm