“Ellen Schippers is a multi-disciplinair artist, who works as a fashion designer, video-artist and photographer. She creates Performances with Wearable Sculptures and Art Theater. Besides she realizes exhibitions with theatrical installations, videos and photos.
With her performances she makes clear statements. Since the eighties she breaks through the well-defined gender role patterns of men and women and gives her feminist vision on women’s sexuality. For example, she designs clothing and wearable sculptures in which women emerge powerful, take the initiative and in which men emphasize their vulnerability. Each piece of clothing tells its own story, which asks to be brought out….
Ellen Schippers has been presenting her performances on stages in the Netherlands and abroad since 1981. She involves theatrical elements such as movement theater, music, light and later also poetry. The collaboration with dancers, actors and mime performers in combination with the wearable sculptures create a special synergy. The mysterious atmosphere and the poetic images appeal to the associative ability of the viewer.”
Many full-page and full-colour pictures of models performing and modeling Schippers’ extravagant latex creations which blur the lines between clothing and sculpture.
Hard cover, 28,5 x 21,5 cm, 114 not numbered pages, Amsterdam 2023
ISBN: 9789090374857
