VALENTINA TRIET

PROVIDER

PROVIDER IN SPRING/ SUMMER 1996, 2024 - 5'44"

PROVIDER IN FALL/ WINTER 2003, 2024 - 13'22"

PROVIDER IN SPRING/ SUMMER 2020, 2024 - 11'53"

DRAWING FROM RUNWAY PRESENTATIONS THAT TRAVERSE DIFFERENT HISTORICAL MOMENTS OF FASHION IMAGE CULTURE, FROM 1980S PRÊT-À-PORTER AND HAUTE COUTURE SHOWS TO RECENT LIVESTREAMED PRESENTATIONS, PROVIDER REPROCESSES THESE CIRCULATED IMAGES INTO DIFFUSE VISUAL FIELDS WHILE LEAVING THEIR ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS INTACT.

THROUGH THIS DISJUNCTION, THE WORK REDISTRIBUTES RELATIONS BETWEEN IMAGE, SOUND, ATMOSPHERE, AND CONTEXT. AS SILHOUETTES, FABRICS, GESTURES, AND NARRATIVE CODES DISSOLVE INTO DISPERSIONS OF COLOUR AND MOVEMENT, RHYTHM, SEQUENCING, AND AFFECT REMAIN OPERATIONAL AFTER REPRESENTATIONAL CLARITY DISSOLVES. SEPARATED FROM THE ASPIRATIONAL LOGIC OF THE RUNWAY IMAGE, THE RECORDINGS BEGIN TO FUNCTION LESS AS REPRESENTATIONS OF FASHION THAN AS MUTABLE PERCEPTUAL ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH WHICH CULTURAL MEMORY, INFLUENCE, ASPIRATION, AND HISTORICAL DISTINCTION CONTINUE TO CIRCULATE.

TEXT BY MAYA TOUNTA