Iris Schieferstein portrays the creation of “creatures” formed by one or more different animals already found lifeless, chosen and taken to the laboratory of the artist, where they are recomposed and stitched together with the mastery of taxidermy; evolving into something different thus enabling the audience to sense its suppleness and the harmony of its shapes and its strengths, or in this very case the aura and the gift of endless life.
Accidentally the arrival of the Berlin artist coincides with the 160th anniversary of the death of Mary Shelley (London, August 1797/February 1851), creator of the fictitious character “Frankenstein”.
The affinity between the main character of the book and the artist is joined up to restore the soul to an inanimate matter but then it is divided in two exact opposites. The creatures of Iris Schiefestein do not appear deformed or lacking of grace, but of a measured and sublime physical shape where the observer is being led in a surreal and fable reality, in some cases they are romantically transformed in letters.