Klodin Erb — Elf Hauben

[…] While wives began to get rid of the bonnet in the first half of the 19th century, servants in some households wore a bonnet until the 20th century, depersonalising them and restricting their field of vision. The bonnet is a sign of the centuries-long narrowing of women’s lives to the domestic, to a servant role devoid of any erotic agency. All this resonates in Elf Hauben, Klodin Erb’s homage to Margret Atwood.
Excerpt from the exhibition text written by Martin Jaeggi

Klodin Erb lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. She has been a lecturer in the Department of Design & Art at the Lucerne School of Art (HSLU) since 2018. In 2022 Klodin received the prestigious Prix Meret Oppenheim. Her latest solo exhibition A different kind of furs opened at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome earlier this year, accompanied by a publication in collaboration with Mousse Publishing.