
Pivô firma parceria com Yes I Am Jeans em Aparamento, projeto produzido para a SP–Arte 2023

Aparamento is a word meaning ornament in Portuguese, something used in decorations. This term is common in sacred contexts where the adornment is a crucial element for rituals. In 2023, we have invited eight artists to ornament clothes in a way their works inhabit a space between fashion design and visual arts.
To conduct this project, Pivô (a nonprofit cultural institution situated in the Copan building) has established an unprecedented partnership with the Brazilian brand Yes I Am Jeans. The brand is known for its commitment to sustainability and diversity, it has produced clothes with recyclable and organic materials, besides its engagement to modeling in a way it can valorize different body types.
Clothes pieces work as blank canvases waiting for interventions by Adriano Costa, Alexandre dos Anjos,Caroline Ricca Lee, Felipe Rezende, Igi Ayedun, Rafael Bqueer, Randolpho Lamonier, and Yuli Yamagata. There is no idea of collection to guide their production: each artist has total poetic freedom to make their artworks now assembled and showcased at SP-Arte’s space.
In addition to his own intervention on a clothing piece, Alexandre dos Anjos signs the curating of the project with Pivô, and a series of pants he created. Dos Anjos is a visual artist, fashion and costume designer. His research is interfacing art, fashion, and the idea of resistance: clothes are understood as a canvas working by and for dissident bodies that are getting ready to fight and to party.
The basis for Aparamento to invite artists is the comprehension that fashion design can be a means of expression and a cultural manifestation, as well as the visual arts; and that the body is an element promoting the displacement of art from an intellectual realm to the sphere of creation and participation.
Aparamento
curated by Pivô e Alexandre dos Anjos
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SP-Arte 2023 (Pavilhão da Bienal)
wednesday march 29th to sunday april 2nd 2023
www.sp-arte.com