WW AW14

SETTING

THE COLLECTION PLAYS OUT BETWEEN THREE SMASHED PLASTER PLINTHS AND PROJECTED SCREENS. THESE BASES ALLOW EACH LOOK TO BE SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYED IN 360 DEGREES AND IN GREAT VOYEURISTIC DETAIL WITH FILM.

FILM

ILLUSION AND DECONSTRUCTION ARE CONNECTED TO THE SYSTEMATIC PRESENTATION OF PEOPLE IN THE FILMS OF BRUCE NAUMAN AND MARTHA ROSLER. THE REFERENCES TO BULLETPROOF VESTS, HAUNTED SPACES AND VICTORIAN BLACK MIRRORS WHICH PROJECT OTHER DIMENSIONS INTO REALITY ARE PLAYED UPON
AS THE GIRLS CIRCLE THE CAMERA. THEY REVEAL THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF FILM MAKING - THE LIGHTS POINTING INWARDS, THE LIGHTING GELS REFLECTING THE CAMERA AND THE GIRLS DRESSING THE MODELS.

REFERENCES

RESEARCH CROSSES SEVERAL THEMES INCLUDING JOHN
DEE’S BLACK SCRYING MIRROR, INVISIBILITY AND REFLECTIONS, CONCEALMENT AND REVELATION, SYMBOLIST PAINTINGS, BULLETPROOF VESTS, MINERALS, TRADITIONAL UPHOLSTERY AND UTILITARIAN FABRICS, BAROQUE 360 DEGREE ‘CONTRAPOSTO’ STANCE, SMASHED CLIFFS AND NATURAL DISASTERS, BLEAK WINTER BEACHES.

FABRIC

TICKING, SATIN VISCOSE, COTTON DRILL, NET, LATEX, COTTON RIBBON, SOFT COTTON DOMET.

TREATMENT

STRUCTURED BANDS OF DEEP GATHERING ARE STRAPPED AROUND THE BODY, MIMICKING A BULLETPROOF VEST.

EXPOSED AND EMPHASIZED STRUCTURAL DETAILING ON FINE
SHEER NETS IS CASUALLY FASTENED WITH RIBBON TIES THEN UNCOMFORTABLY SQUASHED UNDER OTHER GARMENTS, RUMPLING THEIR FORMS.

OVERSIZED EXTERNAL FRENCH SEAMS PROTRUDE LIKE SHARP EDGED FINS ACROSS BACKS, SLEEVES AND SHOULDERS.

INVISIBLE POCKETS ARE EXTERNALISED ON LOOSE FITTED HARNESSES FLOATING OVER SATIN VISCOSE AND TRANSPARENT LATEX.

GOLD CROWNS FAN OUT FROM BEHIND HEADS AND OVERSIZED FEATHERY RAFFIA FRINGES COVER FACES.

OVERLAPPING STEPPED HEMS HOVER OVER THE THIGH IN GRAPHIC LINES WITH RAW EDGES.

GENTLE LEAFY LAYERING BOUNCES OVER THE TOP OF SMART SHORTS.