BERLIN.- Parrotta Project Space Berlin presents Lidy Jacobs - Carved Out Gleaming Glamour, on view through January 31, 2009. The topics of Lidy Jacobs, born 1959 in Heerlen/Netherlands, circle around our society’s obscene and childhood models of repression. In the process, she employs in her work of a combination of collage and silhouette, of photography as well as of sculptures. For her collages she takes the pictorial material from sexually loaded advertisement and porn magazines. She extracts the individual bodies from of them in a special cutting technology and depersonalizes them. The contours of the pictures’ corpus which thus emerge are interwoven in widespread collages to a seemingly endless network. In the dissolution of the borders between the individual body frameworks, which are pushing and intruding into one another, a new seemingly organic entity emerges.

Lidy Jacobs' sculptures are cuddly toys. However, unlike their sexless models, with the aid of which certain social rules can be exercised, Lidy Jacobs’ are sexualized. Even if her elaborately designed soft toys are not taken from any world which is familiar to us from our childhood, they nevertheless point back into our infancy and show thus clearly the repressed parts of psychological processes of early childhood in an adult. In her installations Lidy Jacobs creates scenes which at first sight seem infantile, but then again refer to libidinous structures, which she assumes as fundamental in our society. With the friendly support of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.