Glucksman Gallery exhibition: Where art meets fashion and politics
Sybil Montague with one of her pieces in Fashion Show at the Glucksman, UCC.
As one might expect, there are an awful lot of clothes in Fashion Show, the current exhibition at the Glucksman Gallery at UCC. But, far from being a celebration of couture styling, this is fashion as repurposed by contemporary visual artists as a means of activism and protest. Thus we have the Russian artist Gluklya Pershina creating an installation of t-shirts to protest the election of Vladimir Putin as president, and the Chinese director Wang Bing presenting 15 Hours, a documentary that highlights the poor conditions experienced by workers in a garment factory in the Zhejiang province.
The Irish artist Sybil Montague, a native of Cork and a graduate of Chelsea College of Art in London, is also concerned with the making of clothes; her two pieces in the exhibition are sculptural works she calls ‘blankets’.
