At any moment, I can begin again—to become someone else.

Between dream and fabric, between gesture and reduction, between thought and feeling, between sensual and profound: in the visual worlds of Klodin Erb, a cosmos of contradictions and metamorphoses unfolds. Humans turn into frogs, colors into fabrics, fins into feet—identities dissolve, only to be reshaped anew. Her works are poetic root systems where femininity, nature, and art are constantly being interwoven in fresh ways. Her paintings, textile works, installations, and videos open up spaces where nothing is fixed—everything is in motion, everything can be reassembled.

Klodin Erb (*1963) is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Swiss art. She transforms the everyday into the extraordinary. Humorous and serious at once, sensual and reflective, Erb intertwines motifs from mythology, art history, pop, and internet culture with contemporary themes. Her multilayered visual worlds invite us to question the boundaries of thought.

This artist’s book is published on the occasion of Klodin Erb’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date at the Aargauer Kunsthaus: Vorhang fällt Hund bellt / Le rideau tombe un chien aboie (“Curtain falls dog calls”). It brings together works from over three decades of artistic creation, from early textile pieces to recent theatrical paintings. Like her works, the book itself can be rearranged, reconsidered, reimagined time and again. An invitation to remain open and flexible—in our view of art and of ourselves.