SHAPE – body, fashion & identity
16 November 2024- 30 March 2025
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Enter the breathtaking world of SHAPE! In this textile landscape, you will meander past surreal, futuristic and seductive looks inspired by the human body, and question ideals of beauty. Through these designs, explore the malleability of the body and the creation of identity through textiles and fashion.
About the exhibition
A lot has changed in a short time. Online, we are not only continuously shown the ideal beauty image, we can also create it ourselves with avatars, filters or AI. Medical and cosmetic procedures are increasingly accessible. The conversation about cultural identity, sexuality and gender roles is more open but is also met with fierce resistance. How does all this affect our self-image? And how hybrid is the human body? In SHAPE, we present conceptual, sculptural fashion and body-related art through which the designer addresses the malleability of the body.
The exhibition combines well-known fashion designs, such as those by Iris van Herpen or the puffer coat worn by TV character Carrie Bradshaw, as well as digital fashion and intriguing installations created especially for this exhibition in the TextielLab. Featuring work by Iris van Herpen, Liya Kebede/Pierpaolo Piccioli, Walter Van Beirendonk, Ying Gao, Marga Weimans, Maison the Faux, Bodil Ouédraogo, Daisy Collingridge, Amina Saada, Thom Browne, Christian Siriano, Christian Heikoop, Henrik Vibskov, Marlou Breuls and Elmo Mistiaen, among others.
More information can be found online here.
Image: Artworks courtesy of TextielMuseum
