Beatrice Oettinger

Artist and designer Beatrice Oettinger’s oeuvre contains a catalogue of wearable pieces — including dresses made from hair — which, through the clever manipulation of our senses, connects the body back to nature. Amongst seas of green and flower fields which emerged once the waters had fallen, she grew up by a large, floodplain river meadow in Bavaria, Germany. Deemed unfit for agricultural use, young Oettinger wandered freely across the vast terrains, returning from her excursions with plants, fibres and other discoveries to fuel her perennial fascination with nature. “As if the meadow were the universe, the past and the now. Here the whole world took place in my small village. The meadow and its plants answered all my questions—a violet is 15 million years old.”

Part 3: Research - Textile, fashion, sculpture

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