Kerstin Brätsch | + DAS INSTITUT | "Parasite Patch, from Schröderline," 2011 | (for Parkett 88)

Portraits of the artist and her collaborator Adele Röder (DAS INSTITUT) are knitted into this textile work in four variations, which can be worn and folded to reveal its different design layers.

Read a Parkett Text on Kerstin Brätsch
Parkett Vol. 88

Quote from Parkett
"For Brätsch, demonstrative style has ... to do with the mix and match borrowings of high fashion, DIY subculture, and the manufacturing of persona found in advertising and online viral campaigns."
Fionn Meade, Parkett No. 88, 2011

Additional Quote
“These fabric multiples are typical of Brätsch's interdisciplinary practice that critiques marketing techniques and image distribution within contemporary society. This line of multilayer knit pieces can be attached to items of clothing to promote the artist's creations, in a pastiche of the sandwich board. Decomposing advertising strategies from the inside, Brätsch's works reveal different design layers, to be unfolded one by one. The work is made in collaboration with DAS INSTITUT as a joint project with fellow artist Adéle Roeder.” -Fineartmultiple

"Parasite Patch, from Schröderline," 2011 (for Parkett 88)
in 4 versions each with 4 design layers ( Nothing Nothing / Thus / Ä / Ö).
Knitted textile patch with 4 design layers, made of custom dyed yarns,
each layer 15 x 12" (38 x 30,5 cm).
Designed by DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch, Adele Röder).
Program and digital knitwear by Stoll, New York.
Cotton yarn by Filartex, Italy, silk/merino yarn by Cariaggi and Filipucci, Italy.
To be individually attached to clothes with three snap buttons.
The parsasite patch can be worn displaying each of the 4 diffrent design layers.
Ed. 18/X for each patch version, with signed and numbered certificate.

For the group of all four patch versions, see here.

See full documentation of all design versions & layers, and Kerstin Brätsch’s complete collaboration for Parkett 88 in this special spin-off book here.