NEW FASHION NARRATIVES:
MEET THE TEAM

For this year’s exhibition programme, as part of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2026, four independent fashion practitioners were invited by FASHIONCLASH to form a curatorial team and collaborate on the concept for the New Fashion Narratives exhibition.

This year’s curatorial team includes Karmen Samson, Welmoed Bosch, Jamal Nxedlana, and Agatha Prieto Jeanty, were invited by FASHIONCLASH to co-create the concept for this year’s exhibition during a Residency Week in April 2026. With ‘Fleshy, slimy, wobbly’ the curators aim to bring together works that don’t fit neatly, works that leak, mutate and resist easy categorisation, that move between forms, refuse fixed categorisation, and slip through the cracks of dominant systems.

Karmen Samson

Karmen Samson is an independent fashion researcher and writer whose work examines the relationship between cultural developments and dress practices, with particular attention to how fashion both shapes and reflects broader social change. Combining scholarly depth with a considered narrative voice, she offers perspectives that move beyond critique to open up new ways of understanding fashion’s role in contemporary life. She is the author of Gym Bros and Dandies: The Evolution of Masculinity and Appearance and co-founder of Platform Pudding, a reflective design platform dedicated to fostering dialogue between theory and practice.

Welmoed Bosch

Trained as a fashion designer, Welmoed Bosch works as an independent designer, visual artist and writer. She investigates how body and dress influence and constitute each other. Grounded in her experience in dressmaking and tailoring, she reflects on the garment from the inside, examining the foundations of the techniques used to dress bodies. She is completing an MA in Philosophy at Radboud University, focusing on the late eighteenth-century shift in menswear and the specific conception of nature underpinning it. Drawing on costume history and fashion theory, she brings these into dialogue with philosophical traditions

Jamal Nxedlana

Jamal Nxedlana is an artist and cultural worker. His practice begins with fashion as a domain of intellectual and cultural inquiry from which to explore and respond to imperial, colonial and apartheid legacies in urban South Africa, foregrounding the aesthetic, social and political conditions through which culture is materially and technologically produced.

He has exhibited internationally in galleries, institutions, and independent spaces, including Data Tapestries (2025) at No Man’s Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Orlando (2022) at Fotomuseum Winterthur, and The New Black Vanguard (2019) at Aperture Gallery in New York.

He is founder of Bubblegum Club and a founding member of CUSS Group.

Agatha Prieto Jeanty

Agatha Prieto Jeanty is a multidisciplinary visual artist and design researcher whose practice moves between the West and the Caribbean.

Drawing on decolonial theory and embodied experience, her work weaves feminine fugitivity with ancestral wisdom to challenge dominant narratives.

Through the feminine gaze, she explores how identity is shaped and reclaimed across cultures and places. Rooted in decolonial praxis, her practice centers care, ancestral technologies, and reclaimed presence to imagine spaces and futures for Global Majority communities.