Zitronen augen (Lemon eyes)
A project as part of Temporary Gallery's youth education programme

Angelina Steinbrink, Dima Daddoo, Douae, El Hamdani, Eda Ertürk, Ela Muratdag, Emuobosan Olori, Francesca Elfio, Hermine Koch, Incinur Ari. Lara Akyalcin, Lena Halima Salmani, Melek Okutan, Mia Ciara Albrecht, Özge Gözübüyük, Rania van Deenen, Salma Tassamart. Serdar Soycan, Tuhanna Su Özgüroglu

If fabrics could speak, what stories would they tell about themselves or the people who wear them? How does it feel to be observed by pairs of eyes that sometimes gleam and then blink critically? What does fashion have to do with identity? And how can fictional stories be told through fabrics, cuts, shapes and colors?

Since October 2023, the Temporary Gallery has been collaborating with the Katharina-Henoth comprehensive school in Cologne-Vingst as part of the internal youth education program*. In close cooperation with the art teacher Tinani van Niekerk and the artist Joséphine Sagna, we designed a series of lessons for the 9th grade basic art course. This series of lessons was dedicated to the major theme of “fashion, identity and representation”.
Inspired by Joséphine Sagna's fashion collection “Painting Fashion” (2019), the students had the opportunity to design their own garments for a fictional character. This character could be anything: a human, an animal, a plant, an object or a hybrid creature!

The results are powerful, sometimes enchanted, vibrant garments that tell their very own stories! In April, these will be on display as part of the “Blue Binding Ribbon” exhibition in the Temporary Gallery and will also be exhibited digitally on our website.

Project coordination: Ana Manhey Ahrens Paloma Nana

Funding and support
Kulturamt der Stadt Köln
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW
RheinEnergie-Stiftung
Commerzbank-Stiftung