New Realities

– Some of my works were selected for the exhibition ”New Realities: Fashion Fakes – AI Factories” at the Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt. It takes place from march 21, 2025 bis January 11, 2026.

My series ‘(Gimme) shelter’ arose from the consideration of how clothing can take on a protective function. Not in the sense of armour, but as a cocoon or multifunctional cover into which individuals can retreat when necessary. Such functional clothing can be many things: a place of refuge when travelling, protection from a catastrophe or from sensory overload, perhaps even a home for people who are temporarily or permanently homeless.

AI as a generator of ideas

The use of artificial intelligence (Midjourney AI) results in surprising combinations of materials and shapes. Fed with mood boards of different structures and surfaces, the machine brings together new and surprising, sometimes even absurd combinations. These can be developed further as ideas for future projects.

AI is used as an objective ‘random generator’. Human inhibitions about feasibility are thus deliberately ignored at first. Prompts and iterations steer the results in the desired direction. The input remains deliberately vague in order to give the machine freedom of interpretation. The result is an open-minded workflow that can lead to completely new results.