Martha Posner questions the significance of fabrics often associated with beauty and wealth by reworking worn wedding dresses, vintage waistcoats and corsets. She enhances the original intention of objects as luxurious pieces of clothing, transforming and transcending this meaning by changing the environment, color, and structure of the garments. Posner's work is created around themes of constructed beauty, decay, and the temporary nature of life.
Martha Posner is intrigued by fairy tales and foreign cultures and tells through her work beautiful but dark stories of lost passion and love, while making an attempt to combine beauty with decay. Most of Posner's creations are photographed in desolate, stark landscapes. The transformed, recycled fabrics are still aesthetically pleasing, although not as objects of fashion. They are robust structures and independent objects in the open space. In terms of shape and memory there are still traces of human presence, but a living human being is superfluous for these items to have a justification for existence.

-Georgina Haagsma

Georgina Haagsma studied at the University of Amsterdam, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and moved to London to finish her BA in Cultural Studies at University College London, where she graduated with honors in Art, Science and Practice. She worked in the Press Department at the Saatchi Gallery from February to June 2009 and is now a Gallery Assistant.