LIKE YOU
Participatory Installation
Table, armchair, chair, tailor’s doll, yellow silk jacket,
250 questionnaire, jar, pencils,
6 Boxes No. 101-106 with the pattern of the yellow silk jacket
27 x 18 x 7 cm (each)
Galerie Billing Bild Baar
Like You invites viewers to physically participate in a dialogue about identity, imitation, and authorship. Visitors are asked to wear a reproduction of Vermeer’s wife’s yellow silk jacket and complete a questionnaire reflecting on how the act influences their behaviour and perception.
Six boxes containing the jacket’s sewing pattern transform the installation into an open-source artwork, offering the public the possibility to reproduce and reinterpret it. Jacomella Bonola thus decentralizes authorship and challenges the boundaries between artist and audience. Like You examines how clothing mediates identity, revealing the performative nature of selfhood in social and artistic contexts.
Credits: © Patricia Jacomella Bonola