Fashion, art, design, science and technology collide in the world of endlessly innovative and internationally acclaimed Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen in ‘Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses’ at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until 7 October 2024.
Van Herpen’s practice is characterised by material, philosophical and poetic inquiries that are shaped by her imagination, a deep love of reading and her insatiable curiosity. This contemporary cabinet of curiosities — or Kunstkammer, as they were originally known in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — distils many of the designer’s wide-ranging sources of inspiration.
DELVE DEEPER: Journey through ‘Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses’
Interwoven among the various preparatory studies, garments, footwear, ear pieces, face jewellery, head adornments, belt and clutch accessories made in collaboration with other artists, architects and designers, are historical books, rare photographs, worldly artefacts and natural history specimens, including insects and corals selected by the designer from the Collections of QAGOMA and Queensland Museum.
Cabinet of curiosities
This eclectic display reveals the designer’s love of travel and discovery, and her fascination with the world’s rich diversity. It offers a window into van Herpen’s inquiring mind and her insightful ability to generate connections between worlds.
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
29 Jun – 7 Oct
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Cabinet of curiosities
John & William Cary Cary’s New Celestial Globe 1816
Eadweard Muybridge ‘Cockatoo in Flight’ 1887
Watch | Journey through ‘Sculpting the Senses’
Watch | Iris van Herpen in conversation
‘Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses’ is at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) Brisbane from 29 June to 7 October, across the ground floor in The Fairfax Gallery (1.1), Gallery 1.2, and the Eric and Marion Taylor Gallery (1.3).
The exhibition is co-organised by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and QAGOMA, Brisbane, based on an original exhibition designed by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
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