28” 2” 3”
Katherine Mavridis and Ellinor Stigle
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_ 28” 2” 3”
SEPT 11 - 30 2017
27 Wooster street
New York 10013
28” 2” 3” was first inspired by a personal fitting with the late Dame Zaha Hadid in March 2016, an avid collector of Katherine Mavridis’ collection. Her understanding of her pieces was evident as she wore them with natural elegance and poise. The title of the installation project 28”, 3” and 2” are measurements from this last fitting.
(Right photo: Zaha Hadid fitted model)
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28’ 2” 3 “
(Exhibit view)
_ KATHERINE MAVRIDIS
KATHERINE MAVRIDIS creates garments as abstract, three-dimensional structures, which can exist with or without the body. She examines clothing in their most pure form as abstract ‘tubes’ – taking away a preconceived idea of where these tubes must exist. All clothes – in their most simplified form – are tubes connected to other tubes.
Rupture, shifts, release and the elimination of information are reoccurring sources of inspiration driving her creative exploration. These ‘shifts’ or ‘rips’ symbolize a lived garment - the human touch - life existing within the garment.
In this sculptural installation, Mavridis approaches clothing as a direct response to a feeling rather than a tangible object or idea _ aspiring to sculpture, form and nothingness. She reflects; “My pieces aspire to emptiness - the void; my pieces perhaps exist within the void.”
_ ELLINOR STIGLE
Influenced by the context of the exhibition, ELLINOR STIGLE explores the notion of individuality and presence through a one channel video installation entitled Nucleus.
The piece seeks to represent the life inside the shell against the backdrop of the meditative pulse of a heart beating. By extracting our natively internal sound current, the very source that define us as living, Stigle enhances our intramural rhythm.
Acknowledging that this type of work is ephemeral and exclusive in its presentation as site-specific _ Stigle extracted from the original Nucleus a series of two digital shorts entitled Nucleus I and Nucleus I (cohesion) released exclusively on Sedition.