Dress Codes: The 3rd ICP Triennial of Photography & Video
I saw this exhibition on Friday & was totally blown away. The show features a few of my buddies (Kalup Linzy, Mickalene Thomas & Hank Willis Thomas, but the work by Pinar Yolcan took the cake for me. Pinar’s photos were so moving & deep it left me speechless.
Pinar visited the island of Itaparica in Brazil and invited local Afro-Brazilian women to pose for her & that is when the story begins to unfold. Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video is a must see. The show closes on 1/17/10. -!YG
Summary:
OCTOBER 2, 2009 – JANUARY 17, 2010
The Triennial is ICP’s signature exhibition: a global survey of the most exciting and challenging new work in photography and video. The only recurring U.S. exhibition specializing in international contemporary photography and video, the Third Triennial will mark the closing cycle of ICP’s 2009 Year of Fashion, a series of projects that critically examine fashion and its relationship to art and other cultural and social phenomena. Through the lens of fashion—in its broadest conception—the Triennial will look at the proliferation of photo- and video-based work exploring the uses of style, image, and personal presentation.
The theme of fashion encompasses a diverse range of practices and ideas, including explorations of identity and affiliation; the production, distribution, and consumption of images and goods; contemporaneity; age; gender; and global industry. The themes of the Triennial express the exuberance, wit, and astute social observation taking place within contemporary image-making. These artists variously explore fashion—whether in everyday dress, haute couture, street fashion, or uniforms—as a celebration of individuality, personal identity, and self-expression, and as cultural, religious, social, and political statements.
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