Your Image Is My Weave and All I Want Is a Racing Coat

Following his current motto "Your Image Is My Weave and All I Want Is a Racing Coat", and obsession with motorbikes and their gear, Soll starts to collect images of artworks from the Device_art 7.021 exhibition catalogue, an action some would call theft. By appropriating all the available data, Soll instrumentalizes this exhibition to weave a Racing Coat. He thinks of the exhibition as an active subject, and starts to talk to it. For Soll, communication is a game of sorting and classifying objects, colors, concepts, and people inside all the artwork images. By playing with machine intelligence, object recognition, artworks and their atmospheres, Soll synthesises his recent fetish – a rare, luxurious garment woven from artists’ work. Soll didn’t design this coat in a classical manner, he wrote it. He coded ten poems that unfolded his fantasy into 168 Jacquard weaving blueprints. After writing the coat, Soll translated its visual code into twelve colors. These colors were chosen because they are characteristic of contemporary motorcycle gear, which is at the moment a part of Soll’s fetish library. Woven with the new “colors” and indexed by the way the Device_art exhibition talks about the world, Racing Coat becomes a uniquely coded garment of a specific moment, with no possibility of reproduction. Soll’s ambition here is to load his coat with many ingredients: with the lightness, quickness, and freshness of racing, with the softness, volatility, and abstractness of data, and with the thoughtfulness, mastership, and trickery of an artist.

In this manner Soll’s intelligence is “boundary-crossing”, and he is an artist in the ancient sense of the word. In the fashion industry he is broadly seen as a bridge between human arts and sciences. Since 2020 Soll has designed virtual collections which can be found on: ea11sv.com/product-category/ea11ai/. This is his first physical garment.