Shiki Gu

Designer: Shiki Gu

Brief description about the collection: Farce List is structured with buying nothing new. Built entirely from things that have fallen out of the economy of attention. The work adopts a posture of studying unknowing. When inherited meaning is suspended, objects become available for reinvention. This estrangement is a response to a specific condition of contemporary consumption: overabundance has rendered desire frictionless, nearly imperceptible. 

Bio of the designer: Shiki Gu is a New York-based fashion designer and visual artist. Her work begins in the tension between opulence and silence. The figures in her practice exist somewhere between human and made thing. They carry a quiet dignity that is also, unmistakably, a kind of grief. Her materials remember where they came from. Working through defamiliarization and material labor, she asks what it means when discarded things are seen again for the first time. In her practice, a garment is not a product but an argument. She works across fashion design, photography, and art direction.

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