Collection: XOOOOX

XOOOOX was born in 1979 and lives and works in Berlin. The anonymous artist creates delicate stencil works and installations in an arte povera style, often using weathered and decaying materials.

Life size stencils of professionally styled models form the recurring motif of the figurative works. They place the glamour of fashion culture alongside vulnerability and transience. The women appear beautiful but melancholic and introverted, questioning the worship of haute couture and the uniformity of an increasingly industrialised fashion culture. Exposed facades, worm eaten wood, rotting fabric and rusty metal return these apparently glamorous images to the street.

XOOOOX does not aim to dismiss fashion. The work pays homage to traditional haute couture while remaining critical of its contemporary systems of production and consumption. Circle Culture has presented XOOOOX through exhibitions in Berlin and Hamburg since 2008.