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Fashioning the Intangible: the conceptual clothing of Ying Gao

Start Date 07 May 2014
End Date 01 September 2014
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Renee Baert
Exhibition with exhibition title in text on the wall and television screen.
Exhibition with coat hangers hanging from the ceiling with string displaying garments.
Exhibition with coat hangers hanging from the ceiling with string displaying garments.
Exhibition with two coat hangers hanging from the ceiling with string displaying tops, over the top of two separate white plinth tables displaying textiles.
Exhibition with coat hangers hanging from the ceiling with string displaying garments, and two mannequins standing on floor displaying garments with standing camera facing them.
Exhibition with two mannequins standing on floor displaying garments with standing camera facing them.
Exhibition with two mannequins standing on the floor displaying garments with a person shining a light on one.

The expressive garments of Canadian designer Ying Gao appear to be made of air and light. Bridging art, science and technology, Gao’s clothing materializes the immaterial with interplay between matter and imagination, and between the tangible body and the infinite expression of its embellishment. Poetic effects are developed through computational systems, motors, sensors, embedded electronics, pneumatic and interactive technologies – and with a distinctive aesthetic grace. A focus on urban cultures and transformation is central to this exhibition, which presents six installations produced between 2008 and 2013.

Images courtesy of the Textile Museum of Canada, Ontario, Canada.