The 2024 New Fashion Narratives Exhibition
For this year's exhibition program, five fashion practitioners were invited by FASHIONCLASH to form a curatorial team and collaborate on the concept for the New Fashion Narratives exhibition. During the festival, the exhibition was presented at Bureau Europa. This year's curatorial team included Chaewon Kong, Karime Salame, Katharina Spitz, Simon Marsiglia and Teresa Carvalheira – a group of fashion makers with diverse backgrounds and practices within and beyond the fashion landscape. They first met during a physical Residency Week (22-26 April 2024) in Maastricht, where they got to know each other and worked on developing the concept. The exhibition was built around the idea of the game Exquisite Corps. It served as a metaphor for presenting works that are the result of collaborative and/or transdisciplinary practices. The multidisciplinary selection included different artists, researchers, and designers.
New Fashion Narratives participants: 2mm, Agatha Prieto Jeanty, Rafael Kouto, Wataru Sato, Delia Rößer, Alyne Li, STUDIO ERASER YOU, Hongkai Li, Jiwoo Lee & Hankyul Jeong, Threads & Tits, Olivia Sahl Jensen, Sien Entius, Lee Kern, Studio Wievien, Romy Yedidia, DOMINIK, Knits and Notes, Zuzana Vrabelova, Chiel Lubbers, Dana Elmi Sarabi, Studio Frowijn, Souheila Chalabi, Jinwon Kim, Matti Paffen, Kushami 嚔(by Ayumi Kajiwara), Lara van der Poel, Wassim el Hodayebi.
Photos: Laura Knipsael
Open Call: Exhibition Program New Fashion Narratives
For this year’s exhibition programme, as part of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2024, five 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 Chaewon Kong, Karime Salame, Katharina Spitz, Simon Marsiglia and Teresa Carvalheira – a group of fashion practitioners with various backgrounds and practices within and beyond the fashion landscape.
The curatorial team shares an interest in fashion that gains inspiration from topics and practices beyond the boundaries of the fashion landscape. They want to broaden the confines of fashion and design practices for this year‘s New Fashion Narratives exhibition, by welcoming applications of artists, researchers and designers from various disciplines who work according to a collaboratively and transdisciplinary approach.
Therefore, the exhibition will be built around the idea of the collaborative game ‘Exquisite Corpse’[1]. This metaphor serves as a framework to present works that result from collaborative and/or transdisciplinary practices pushing the boundaries of future fashion practices. The curatorial team aims to actively promote and foster education on cross-disciplinary practices and simultaneously showcase the potential and impact of these practices within and beyond the fashion landscape.
[1] ‘exquisite corpse’: a game of collaborating individuals. Throughout this game the drawing of a body is composed in a collective effort. The game results in a collective drawing.
New Fashion Narratives: Meet the Team
For this year’s exhibition programme, as part of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2024, five 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 Chaewon Kong, Karime Salame, Katharina Spitz, Simon Marsiglia and Teresa Carvalheira – a group of fashion practitioners with various backgrounds and practices within and beyond the fashion landscape. They first met during a physical Residency Week (22-26 April 2024) in Maastricht, where they got to know each other and worked on developing the concept.
Chaewon Kong
Chaewon is an artist and designer who seeks to bridge the worlds of fashion and art with a multidisciplinary approach.
Karime Salame
Karime is a designer and researcher based in Amsterdam. She focuses on creating spaces in-between; in-between fashion, our minds and practices.
Katharina Spitz
Katharina is a conceptual designer with a background in couture dressmaking. From a feminist and material-oriented perspective she explores social conflicts of our time such as change, misogyny and alienation.
Simon Marsiglia
Simon practices world building with produced items as his starting point.
Teresa Carvalheira
Teresa is a multidisciplinary designer and upcycler. Former community manager for Fashion Revolution Portugal, she is now focused on process-based research on the global transmission of textile practices.
