Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos‘s collection of pieces relating to female and male identity and the dictatorship of image and fashion is currently on show at the Elba Benitez.

The artist has used crochet to clad all sorts of objects: televisions, toilets, urinals… In this exhibition, the excessive use of crochet has been taken a step further: it serves to cover objects already intrinsically “beautiful”, such as a top model or decorative ceramic dogs. The superfluousness of decoration is taken to the limit.

Vasconcelos is also famous for A Noiva (2001), the chandelier made out of thousands of tampons she exhibited at this year edition of the Venice Biennale.

On show at the Elba Benitez Gallery in Madrid. Images.

More crochet art: cruel crochet, Ming-Yi Sung, Bea Camacho‘s wonderful pieces, Hand-Knit Costumes and Embroidered Comic Book Cover Samplers, Crochet Chaos, and one my favourite exhibitions of the year knitting show at Craft Council.