My Marcel My Silver — Risi Leigh

My Marcel My Silver, 2023

(an angel’s pile, the only silver in the castle, singing stones)

^{Group exhibiton Life on its own}^{, Kunstraum Schwaz}

^{overlong dress made of tanktops (franz. marcel),
cut outs covered with ornamental patches,
a poem written on the inside of the torso}

^{First-Contact-Scene

Am I all the Sea?

Till the light shines on me,

Your mouth singing fantasies,

velvet breaths and silver sleeves,

mossy axillas and starry sky melodies,

also called caryatid’s axillas fantasies,

‘well hung’ simulacrum,

‘well-folded’ fluidum,

and your active presences,

falling inside,

printout, midnight recovery,

cracks in a skin,
sunset of a day,

dawn after dark}

Am