Annegret soltau biography of william hill

Annegret Soltau is a German visual artist. Photomontages of her own body and face sewn over or collaged with black thread are her most well known works. She uses the technique of black thread to portray the idea of identity and disguise. Her work questions personal identity on an abstract scale. For example, ‘Selbst’ is a chapter where she ties her face up with black thread in geometric patterns, this distorts and intensifies the beauty of her face. Through these self harming self-portraits, she demonstrates her story as a woman and the forced place women have had in society for many centuries. It was the first project where Soltau used a needle and thread to draw over a photograph and this style has become her hallmark. Annegret Soltau writes her story as a woman on the blank page of her face; it is a history of conflict, impulsive reactions to the family environment and the marginal position of women in the social context.

Her first project using thread in photography is titled ‘Selbst’. Using black thread, she stitched over self portraits into geometric patterns which joins the features of her face and enhance her beauty, or physically wraps the thread into a cocoon form which acts as a binding force, distorting her appearance through cutting into the flesh and

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