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Speaking in tubes: Original concrete flooring is covered in seamless laminated vinyl stickers extending onto its western wall, embellished in a faux-tubular visual “pattern” that seemingly lays out the collaboration’s DNA (JP/Anindito Ariwandono) (JP/Anindito Ariwandono)
An art collaboration went literal in converting Bandung art space Selasar PAV for the Dressing Room exhibition
Modest fashion label NADJANI’s latest collaboration with Bandung artist Syagini Ratna Wulan is not subtle in any way. Following the release of an extensive catalog of 41 items at the end of March, the collaboration moved forward with an immersive exhibition held at Bandung art space Selasar PAV from April 11 to June 3.
Wobbling over the tubes
Traversing the indoor exhibition space of Selasar PAV may be a disorienting experience during the Dressing Room exhibition. Its original concrete floorings are covered in seamless laminated vinyl stickers extending onto its western wall, embellished in a faux-tubular visual “pattern” that seemingly lays out the collaboration’s DNA.
“The collaboration’s title is Amur Adonis,” said Artiandi Akbar, one of the exhibition’s curators. “Teteh’s [Sundanese for big sister] works discussed the ontology of color. How color is a social construct and so on, but over time her works became more abstract, more freely interpreted. That [quality] also shows in this installation.”
Combined with the wobbly-surfaced reflective acrylic sheets lining the sloping eastern roof, the space is essentially a literal dressing room, at least in a physical sense, yet one that is not “private”.
Visitors to the exhibition are each given, or rather “loaned”, an overcoat from the collaboration’s collection before entering the exhibition. “Just like a dressing room, the display room is designed with the intent to be a space that is able to store clothing collections, to dress up, to preen oneself, or just to preserve one’s peace among the choices of clothing that one has,” curators Ardo Ardhana, Artiandi Akbar and Zanun Nurangga wrote collectively in the release.
