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Lucy Orta Refuge Wear

Lucy Orta and Philippe Piguet, Jerome Sans, Paul Virilio

Editions Jean Michel Place, Paris 1996, 96 pages, 17x24cm, français et anglais, ISBN 9782858932726

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Refuge Wear è un raro oggetto da collezione. Pubblicato nel 1996, introduce il lavoro dell'artista visiva Lucy Orta e la sua pratica unica che fonde architettura e abbigliamento. La pubblicazione include un saggio seminale del filosofo e urbanista Paul Virilio, nonché le prime immagini delle sue performance di architettura indossabile e progetti collaborativi socialmente coinvolgenti, tra cui Identity + Refuge con i residenti dell'Esercito della Salvezza e Commune Communicate with inmates in Metz prison.

18/05/24

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Refuge Wear (1992-98) by Lucy and Jorge Orta, shot by John Akehurst

Refuge Wear are temporary shelters that can be transformed into clothing to offer protection from harsh conditions and shelter in emergency situations. The series, which Lucy Orta began working on during a period of economic recession provoked by the Gulf War and subsequent stock market crash, combines a dual response to this unprecedented global crisis. They are poetic responses to the humanitarian aid appeals for shelter and clothing for the Kurd refugees fleeing the war zones, and to the increasing numbers of homeless people on the streets of Paris.

Refuge Wear are portable habitats that convert into anoraks and backpacks, designed for personal comfort and mobility for nomadic populations. The transformation from shelter to clothing and vice versa is fundamental to the concept of freedom of movement, free will or choice, new relationships and new cultural exchanges, the homo mobilis. They incorporate arm and hood appendages, or pockets that contain both functional and symbolic objects. Their ergonomic forms allow for a minimum vital body space and they employ cutting-edge design innovations such as telescopic carbon armatures that raise the fabric above the chest to eliminate the effects of claustrophobia. The materials contain technical properties such as microporous Rip Stop with or PU coatings, metaphors for body comfort and protection.

Throughout the 1990's Lucy + Jorge Orta staged public interventions to challenge acts of social disappearance and to render the invisible populations, visible once more. Peripheral urban spaces such as squats, railway stations, housing projects, bridges and subways were chosen as arenas for simultaneous happenings. These interventions –warnings, alarm bells, distress whistles– signal out social issues that the media were ignoring at that time.

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park

1: Nigel Hall: Crossing (Horizontal) 2-3: Dennis Oppenheim: Trees: From Alternative Landscape Components 4: Kimsooja: A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir 5-6: Sean Scully: Wall Dale Cubed 7: Anthony Caro: Promenade 8: Sol LeWitt: 123454321 9: Jaume Plensa: Wilsis 10: Lucy + Jorge Orta: Gazing Ball 2018