HIGHLY COMMENDED
As a textile and fashion designer, Elżbieta’s focus is the process of material combinations. ‘I’m searching balance between art and design related to the research for new areas of material exploration’.
The book The Fashion System of Roland Barthes provided the inspiration for Wearable Sheets of Paper. He described glossy magazines as a machine for making fashion. Elżbieta says: ‘In this project these words have become… a real attempt at redefining the fashion trade. The customer is buying a flat, virtual image. Cyclical fashion trends presented repeatedly in multipage journals have raised literal associations and questions: Can we wear a piece of paper? Can we be inside of the sheets of paper?’
For many years Elzbieta has been collecting old Vogue magazines from around the world. For this project she selected pages with many faces and red accents. Once selected, the glossy Vogue magazine pages are deconstructed through a technique of ‘erasing the print’. This involves abrasion, crushing, then scratching (see video clips).
Materials: paper from Vogue magazines, starched cellulose-cotton fabric (bookbinding fabric), glue, metal eyelets, cords, transparent silicon
Elżbieta’s website https://www.ciosdesign.com/
Elżbieta’s Artist’s Statement
MAKING OF FILM - combination edit