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Silly Canvas 

A Constructed World, Amalia Ulman, Anna-Sophie Berger, Bless, Body by Body, D&K, ffiXXed, H.B. Peace, Ida Ekblad and Eirik Sæther, Lucina Lane, Marlie Mul, Mikala Dwyer, Susan Cianciolo, Trevor Shimizu
At Utopian Slumps
15th - 24th February 2014


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(image: Body by Body)

Silly Canvas invites a selection of practitioners to create new work, restricted to the parameters of two 70cm x 170cm rectangles of material attached to one another. These works will operate as both flat dresses for a runway performance on the opening night and as static wall hangings for the duration of the exhibition.

Silly Canvas looks at the most rudimentary of garment shapes, the sack dress. The exhibition has set the dictatorial task of dealing with surface alone, circumventing usual design processes. The works together are seen as a collection of worn canvases each imprinted with the practitioners attempt to influence and affect the blank-slate rectangular form.


Including:

A Constructed World
Amalia Ulman
Anna-Sophie Berger
Bless
Body by Body
D&K
ffiXXed
H.B. Peace
Ida Ekblad and Eirik Sæther
Lucina Lane
Marlie Mul
Mikala Dwyer
Susan Cianciolo
Trevor Shimizu


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Install photos by Christo Crocker 

Opening night performance (in order of appearance):

A Constructed World
Nude costume dress

Amalia Ulman
Adaptation of “El Dinero” (AIDS awareness poster #04)

Anna-Sophie Berger
could be a scarf (gold)
could be a scarf (silver)

Bless
Untitled

Body by Body
Mr. Squiggle v5.0

D&K
DK 2015 '01' unpacked precious art work as precious art work, from previous projects DK101, Desire 101, #thathautcouturefeeling, effortless beauty takes alot of effort and featuring Sanja Pahoki’s View from Suomenlinna of the Baltic Sea (Blue), 2011. Perpendicular front side ‘your horizon ™’ sky view and back side broken ice and frozen sea placed and eyeleted on Dolci & Kabana tissue paper; shoulders caught with DK101 number ’01’ and Desire 101 glass beaded ‘d’on latex.
Digital print on silk satin, silk screen print on silk organza, bonded nylon elastane, glass beads, latex

ffiXXed
Delays AW15/16

H.B. Peace
Infanta : Framed

Ida Ekblad and Eirik Sæther
Weighted Eyelids. Bleached Brows.
 
Lucina Lane
well u can do whtevr u like

Marlie Mul
Grater

Mikala Dwyer
Mary-Maria

Trevor Shimizu
Sweat Stained Dress

Susan Cianciolo
textile piece & dress

Photos by Nadeemy Betros and Jaimi Chisholm