#libby oliver

[womensarts-blog]

Canada based artist Libby Oliver's portrait series Soft Shells, 2018 . Each image shows a person with their entire wardrobe wrapped around them raising ideas of personal identity ♀️

[staged-photography]

Libby Oliver

Soft Shells

“Soft Shells is a photography portrait series that catalogs an individual with every item of clothing they own. This work arises from my interest in artificiality, visual power relationships and indexing a person through their belongings. Through this series I aim to explore the tension point between a person’s curated individuality and my personal manipulation of their aesthetic. Soft Shells speaks to human vulnerability, trust, power and control relations of visual interpretation.” – from the Artist’s Statement

Although Ms. Oliver’s project is rather about identity and not making a statement about consumerism, these images call to mind how often we have stood in front of the closet bemoaning, “I have nothing to wear!” Team Staged is actually surprised by the size of those piles and, at the same time, horrified that the fashion industry is the second largest polluter after oil. We’re also curious to see what comes out of Ms. Oliver’s plans to travel the ongoing series to different locations – she is based in Victoria, Canada – in order to represent a wider range of identities, clothing, and cultures.

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[mossandfog]

People Wearing Every Single Piece of Clothing They Own

In a visually hilarious yet brilliant series, Canadian photographer Libby Oliver showcases figures wearing every single piece of clothing they own.  Entitled Soft Shells, the series is deeper than it might seem, as Oliver describes the thought process behind the seemingly lighthearted project.Both a reflection of consumerism and a way to showcase the elements of a person’s style, the series Soft…

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[tracylmurray]

Dressed in excess: people put on all their clothes – in pictures

[souramagazine]

"Power Of Clothes" is a photo series by #LibbyOliver #SouraMagazine: www.souramagazine.com

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Soft Shells by Libby Oliver

“Libby Oliver is a Canada based artist behind an ongoing fascinating portrait series called Soft Shells. Each photo captures a different person with their entire wardrobe wrapped around them.The human body disappears behind the clothing carefully selected to define an individuality. For Oliver: « Fashion is interesting because it does have so much cultural and social and environmental and self-identity tied up into it. Clothing grounds us to our notions of self and works to cue others to our chosen identity narrative. What we wear is thus both an exercise in our creative individual autonomy and a system of social surveillance and categorization.”

words by Cecile Poignant on TrendTablet