Carol Christian Poell

Object tanned gloves

MALE 2011

FORM AM/2590

MAT/COL ROOMS-PTC/13

Made in Italy

Fusing the human hand with some thing external, linking warm flesh with cold metal. The metal plates are tearing through the leather, ripping it apart. It looks as if the gloves are frozen in a state of transformation, a constant state of mutation. The metal seemingly emerging from the wearers body creates an illusion of unnatural fusion as if the garment itself is mutating along with the wearer.