In the last few months I've been carrying out some personal researches on three topics: Man Ray's rayograms and their application in fashion; Naum Gabo's works and his theories about the artist embracing modernity, employing new materials such as plastics, and his ideas about copies and replicas with slight alterations, and László Moholy-Nagy's experiments with synthetic materials and transparent and opaque plastics.
I wanted to recreate something wearable yet somehow connected with these three themes that could also reference Moholy-Nagy's interest in the effects of light and I found an idea in a stack of slides that belonged to my late father.
The slides were originally made for educational purposes (my father used them to teach) and mainly feature technical drawings and images about auto repair techniques.
I thought it would have been nice to give them another life and do something crazy with them as usual, incorporating the slides in a necklace, headdress and belt. The latter can actually be anchored to the necklace to create a decorative piece in the style of an ammunition belt. The pieces represent a sort of personal slideshow telling different stories about my father and my current research topics.
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