• Dead, Fictive, Live: Iris Shieferstein

    Date posted: December 29, 2011 Author: jolanta

    Paola Fiorido: Why are you working with dead material?
    Iris Shieferstein: Because it was lying on the street. Nobody is interested in dead animals that nobody eats. I picked it up like Duchamp. And I use them, like the author uses the fable. Hopefully, the creations inspire a new point of view on death. If you see something dead, then you start to think about life.

    PF: How do you get your ideas?
    IS: Dreaming, looking, thinking, and talking to a fictive partner.

    “Let me see how fast you can jump into the sky, and then I can dream about you…”

     

    Courtesy of the artist.

     

    Dead, Fictive, Live:  Iris Shieferstein

    Paola Fiorido: Why are you working with dead material?
    Iris Shieferstein: Because it was lying on the street. Nobody is interested in dead animals that nobody eats. I picked it up like Duchamp. And I use them, like the author uses the fable. Hopefully, the creations inspire a new point of view on death. If you see something dead, then you start to think about life.

    PF: How do you get your ideas?
    IS: Dreaming, looking, thinking, and talking to a fictive partner.

    PF: Who is the fictive partner?
    IS: The deer. Deer Iris.

    PF: Would you ever be able to interview yourself?
    IS: Usually not, because my work is my voice.

    PF: Are you a hunter?
    IS: Yes, I am. I am sorry to say that, but that is my nature. I respect life and that means that life respects me.

    PF    : Good to know that I am only a partner in your dreams. Would you be ever able to kill me?
    IS: Hopefully not. But anyway, it would be better to escape if I stay in front and stay hungry.  Let me see how fast you can jump into the sky, and then I can dream about you and see you again as a wonderful, fascinating creation that you are, as a friend on my side.


     

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