WARM.WORN.UNIFORM

WARM.WORN.UNIFORM. is the third iteration of an ongoing project called BLACKANDWHITEAND ALLOVER. BLACKANDWHITEAND ALLOVER is the title of a play in progress, written by the artist. The play is a fictional dialogue between three historical figures: Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958), a Constructivist artist and textile designer who is perhaps most well remembered for her complicated geometric patterning and clothing designs, particularly those for sports costumes; Ida Craddock (1857-1902), a mystic, freethinker, pioneering sex educator, and advocate for progressive reform of sexual relationships; and Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), a poet, painter, sometime-scenographer, and bohemian flâneuse from a wealthy New York family.

The objects and pictures here are elements of the current and continuing project that consists of costumes, props, and scenic displays for the play. These elements are modular, their arrangement intentionally unfixed, and have been displayed in various configurations and venues.

WARM.WORN.UNIFORM. combines elements of a theatrical stage space with the more intimate suggestion of the dressing room, and plays with ideas of the gaze, the self-portrait and the mirror as a space of transformation and a lens through which to view historical, present and future aesthetic incarnations of ideology, exchange and feminist identity.

This project coincides with the Montreal launch of a full colour double catalogue produced in conjunction with recent exhibition Doubting Thomas at the Esker Foundation in Calgary. The Doubting Thomas catalogue is paired with the catalogue for Cynthia Girard’s concurrent exhibition at the Esker entitled Unicorns and Dictators. The double catalogue is being officially launched with the support of Battat Contemporary and Parisian Laundry at Librairie Formats.