Porcelaine

DIGITAL ART / VIDEO / AN AUDIOVISUAL INVESTIGATION INTO FRAGILE INDENTITY
(2018)

"Porcelaine" is a project at the intersection of photography and video art. It explores the aesthetics of fragility and the deliberate highlighting of imperfections. The work combines physical presence with the symbolism of Japanese craftsmanship to create a poetic visual language.

The focus is on the dancer Noriko Nishidate. In an analog process, her body was painted with delicate patterns reminiscent of classic Japanese porcelain. Brigitte Fässler uses this painting as the basis for a targeted digital transformation: in post-production, the color of the paint was extracted and replaced with gold.
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This intervention is a media-art reference to the tradition of Kintsugi, where broken ceramics are mended with gold. Rather than concealing the fractures, they are refined and celebrated as an essential part of the object's history.

In "Porcelaine," this concept is transferred to the human body. The work shows a hybrid existence in which technological processing becomes a symbol of resilience: alleged cracks are not viewed as a deficit but are made visible as a source of a new, transformed beauty. The piece thus questions our perception of perfection and identity in a digitally influenced world.

Creating space to recognize the fragility and vulnerable beauty of the ephemeral. This experimental image and video series was created in collaboration with the Japanese dancer Noriko Nishidate and the body painting artist Bouche Rouge.