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UTS Gallery
Shinmi Park: Changeability, the Fashion Trace
22 May – 22 June 2007
About Shinmi Park
Korean fashion designer Shinmi Park's showcases her provocative and original work in her first major Australian exhibition, Shinmi Park: Changeability, the Fashion Trace at UTS Gallery. Park’s highly innovative explorations of the connection between fashion, art and architecture will be on show in this visually stunning display from 22 May to 22 June.
Park's work considers the dialogue between modern architecture and contemporary fashion in concept as well as practice. By borrowing devices from both disciplines such as the spiral, the fold and zippers to provide the structural basis for her soft sculptures, her designs are no longer static structures for wearing but metaphors for urban life.
"Fashion fulfils its fundamental function when worn by humans. Whether that function is to protect the body or to create a symbolic meaning, it displays its worth when met by a body,” claims Park. “The action of choosing clothes and wearing them - the action of making style - is a kind of art as well a sphere within design. I think that all individuals are a living form of artwork."
Taking fashion beyond the expression of trends, Park’s work develops types of fashion structures that reinvent the garment as a sensual transaction between the body, interior space and the eye. Obsessively detailed, the intricately layered textures of Park’s designs appear deceptively light and playful. Each garment is constructed by a kind of modular interconnection between individual pieces that can be disassembled and recombined into multiple sculptural forms according to the will of the wearer.
Peter Johnson Building
Level 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 12-6pm
UTS Gallery
Email:utsgallery@uts.edu.au
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