The city lights reflect off the heels, like a smile in a gold tooth.

The shoe sole, repurposed as a canvas, points sharply toward the future, with the heels ready to be used as a weapon.

The once flawless surface of the sole is now worn and cracked.

This creating the ideal surface for drawing, where cigarette butts and chewing gum would normally stick.

The story imprints itself on the shoe. The past clings to my heels.

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Magdalene Frauenberg (b. 1996) is a multimedia artist reflecting on femininity in the context of historical and contemporary social structures. Influenced by the iconography of her native Tyrol, traditions along with folkloric objects and rituals act as a catalyst for the artist’s process of appropriation and revision of associated narratives. Full of friction and coded references, her space-enveloping installations are composed from objects referencing the mundane, surreal sculptural forms, through to photography, drawings and text-based considerations. Manifesting a hybrid and highly symbolic vocabulary of forms, an inherent logic is cognisable, and yet remains bizarrely encoded.