As I walked into Vivan Sundaram's exhibit, I was instantly captured by all of the unique dresses on mannequins. I've always been interested in fashion, and I immediately knew that I was going to be amused. Making Strange is the combined exhibit of two projects: Gagawaka, which consists of 27 garments made from recycled or found objects, and Postmortem, which is composed of mannequin dummies and anatomical models.
I think that Sundaram's work can be interpreted in different ways. Sundaram wanted to display the interaction between haute couture and the fragility of the human body. In a video at the exhibit, he points to the inseparability of fashion and the anatomical body. His efforts attempt to capture tension between beauty and illness, pleasure and pain, and life and death. Furthermore, he contemplates representing the human figure within conditions of our globalized world.
My perception was that these pieces are meant to show what is beneath all of the fashion and materials of our modern world. The recycled objects like plastic tubes, ties, and pills, represent the things that we consume or consume us in our everyday lives. The postmortem pieces show the one thing that we all share, the organs of our body. Everybody may be going through different illnesses and feelings, yet we are all human and have the same fragile bodies.
Sandarac's work fits perfectly into our curriculum. The combination of biology and fashion illustrates an amazing way to combine science and art. I would definitely recommend this exhibit to you all. We have learned about how anatomy has played a role in art, and it was very intriguing to see this being done through run way fashion!
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| The front desk girl and me outside the exhibit |
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