Event #2: Fowler Museum

Earlier this week, I went to the "Making Strange" exhibit at the Fowler Museum. It was made up of two separate projects - Gagawaka and Postmortem - by one artist, Vivan Sundaram. Personally, I really enjoyed Gagawaka, which was a collection of "strange" haute couture made out of unconventional items, repurposed to make beautiful pieces. It really opened my eyes to the fact that many items we categorize as "trash" can actually make something avante garde. Furthermore, many of the couture pieces were made out of medical-based items, like feminine hygiene products, sanitary masks, foil pill wrappings, and x-ray films. I feel more inclined to look at functional items and see something I would have never seen before. Especially, in the area of medicine, where so much emphasis is placed on tools being sterile and efficient as possible, to completely repurpose them as a part of a bigger design was a great take on their functionality, and in doing so created a new function for them.

An outfit made out of foil pill wrappings and a dress made out of x-ray films.