KÖRPERBLÄTTERN!
Unsettling Identities


Lucerne, Switzerland
Scans & photographs with screen printing on fabric
collaboration with Livia Faden
90 individual pieces 20 x 30 cm
produced 2022



This work focusses on body identities and feelings to trigger a

critical reflection on the viewer‘s own body image. Textiles influ-

ence our perception of the body and shape our identity. In this

work, the body motifs fade into the background or merge with

the fabric. The individual parts of this work evoke a feeling of

nakedness and concealment at the same time.


This body of work was first hung in a bundle on a pole, with the

hanging resembling a wall calendar. The viewer had the freedom

to choose their own combination of motifs. Our aim was to ena-

ble the viewer to interact more intensively and to involve them

more closely, and in view of the omnipresent body norms and

definitions in our society that influence our identity.



The work was then exhibited in a group exhibition at the Kunst-

halle Luzern in autumn 2022. A mural with all the 90 individual

pieces was exhibited as a complete work of art without the the

possibility to be touched by the public it functioned in a static

way.





© Livio Burtscher
2025