'Untitled' by Sandra Backlund

By SHOWstudio, 00:00 Fri 05 Sep 2008

All too often, when fashion falls into the realms of art it can forget and even denigrate the body it seeks to dress. The tremendously talented Sandra Backlund is a notable exception, as her Future Tense film proves. Working with filmmaker Marcus Werner Hed, Backlund's video captures seemingly offhand, intimate moments of women playing with and (perhaps more importantly) living in Backlund's extreme, sculptural creations. In an incongruous domestic setting, it is fascinating to watch as Backlund's clothing transforms the simplest of acts - dressing, moving, sitting - into a complex ritual straight from the renaissance or Kabuki theatre.

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