Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Event: The Fowler Museum

The Fowler Museum
Making Strange by Vivan Sundaram



This collection of work consists of two projects, Gagawaka and Postmortem. Gagawaka is a collection of garments made out of medical supplies and recycled items. The garments are Sundaram’s own take on the world of fashion. I found his recycled material outfits to be fun and creative. These outfits focus on interesting ways to cover the body and the aesthetics of everyday materials.  




His medical supply outfits were also very creative but they also represented the painful and a more serious side of real everyday life.



The second project, Postmortem consists of mannequins and dummies of human skeletal, vascular, and organ system. These sculptures are meant to focus more on the body itself and force you to look at body parts and movement in a different way. Similar to the outfits that are made out of medical supplies the Postmortem sculptures are meant to correlate with sickness and aging. Both of these art installations show a relationship between the artistic world of fashion and the scientific world of medicine.





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