OUR GRADUATESBelow you find short introductions of all our 2018 Textile and Fashion Graduates!
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Yasmin Boomsma / FashionName: Yasmin Boomsma Age: 24 Origin: The Netherlands THE EQUAL RITE For my graduate collection I was inspired by 'The Rite of Spring', a ballet piece from 1913 that is regarded as a significant turning point in the history of the performing arts due to its innovative orchestral work and choreography; instead of hanging on to a system that had been corrupted for centuries with codification, The Rite's creators introduced a new philosophy to the world of ballet. I am fascinated by the piece, however, a particular aspect of the storyline sparks anger inside me. The play tells the story of a Pagan ritual in a Russian village that culminates in the sacrifice of a young woman by the use of dance to appease the god of spring. As the choice for a female victim was never explained, I chose to research this aspect and create a feministic version of The Rite in which the 'chosen one' is selected based on voluntary participation and the depicted society exists in a post-patriarchal setting. A society in which misogyny and sexism are understood to be faults, one that does not hang on to a sex/gender dichotomy. The concept behind the sacrifice itself in my version of The Rite also becomes more holistic: a meeting between the divine and mortal. With the sacrifice proceeding through dance, I extended this concept to viewing movement of the mortal body as touching the divine and translated this freedom of expression through movement into my collection. To me, the meeting and ultimately merging of the immortal and mortal during the sacrifice is also symbolic for the merging of strength and fragility. Yani Chuang / TextileName: Yani Chuang Age: 23 Origin: Taiwan THE DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE ‘The Domestic Landscape’ is a reflection of how we use our everyday object. By deconstructing, reconstructing and adding textile designed values, I want to highlight the potentials for our used objects. I see these everyday objects as material that is shared and engaged in our life routine. All these objects are presented as possibilities of how we can reuse our existing materials. I wish to increase not only the lifespan but also our emotional connection towards the daily object. Chairs can be seen as a bodily-related object in our daily life and textile plays an important role. Being able to add aesthetic value in designed textiles, I create new possibilities in how we see our existing objects. Marijn van der Eyden / TextileName: Marijn van der Eyden Age: 21 Origin: The Netherlands PERCEELNUMMER: 3927 Perceelnummer: 3927 is inspired by the pure connection between the boy Jack and the objects in Room in the movie Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015). A connection in which all the objects around him are meaningful. This we don’t experience to that extend in our daily surrounding. This surrounding tends to exist only as a background behind our stories. In my project that background becomes the story itself. I’m building a house out of the ‘normal’ materials that are around us everywhere; the electricity wires that are often hidden in the white walls, the signs to guide us, the dust collected from the floor and the floor-plans that define space. Yuki Ito / FashionName: Yuki Ito Age: 27 Origin: Japan FALSE PERCEPTION We perceive others at first sight based on what they wear and how they dress. I want to falsify these notions of stereotypes and prejudices, by creating counterfeit. I mushup multiple traits of existing garments. Every object/garment has its function, but what happens if you deconstruct conventional patterns of a sleeping bag, a pair of pants, a military vest or a prison uniform? Once you have done that, all that’s left are fabrics. Placing these fabrics in a different context that I roughly stitch together in order to reconstruct new complex garments. That makes symbols/traits of garments blur, giving a surrealistic view and falsifying ones perception. I create my own chimera. Yuchen Jao / TextileName: Yuchen Jao Age: 27 Origin: Taiwan MICE ON MARS Mars, a land that no one has ever set foot on, yet a place that has been designed, narrated and idealized. A place that might prevent humans from extinction, a place waiting to be explored, a place that is only reachable with future technology, a place that still conforms to the disparity of economical and political power. I translate this idea by collecting construction materials like tubes, rope, yarn, tape and isolation material. By using different textile techniques, I create my own textile designs imprinted with quotes like ‘humans were here’ and investigate the possibility of growing plants and crops in my textile objects. Joana Schneider / TextileName: Joana Schneider Age: 27 Origin: Germany PLUIS Pluis netting is used by fishermen to protect their net from sharp stones and friction on the bottom of the sea. It reminds me of a festive and luxurious tapestry, due to its richness in texture technique and the royal blue, yet I am repulsed by the idea of this non-biodegradable material consciously being thrown into the sea in order to maintain our fishing industry. The basis of my work, rope and netting, is made from waste material from the netmaker industry. It carries the traces of its life in the sea. But working around the idea of the pluis I add a material that provides a sense of beauty and fragility whilst giving the viewer a feeling of repulsion. Hence, I’m working with the color poison green and red in my yarns sponsored by Morssinkhof Rymoplast, a Dutch company that produces yarns made from post consumer plastics. I am proud to say that my work is sustainable, while playing with a range of exceptional materials. Timothy Scholte / FashionName: Timothy Scholte Age: 26 Origin: The Netherlands BECOME A MARY-ANN: CHANGE YOUR BODY FOR DESIRE ‘Become a Mary-Ann’ is inspired by Fanny and Stella.They were no ordinary women, but two young cross-dressing men who outraged Victorian society. They were known as Mary-Anns – objects of desire – the term used for male homosexual prostitutes. The intention is to create a reimagined wardrobe for men in which everyday garments become objects of desire. The collection features denim, bomber jackets, jerseys that are transformed into intricate desirable pieces with crinoline underneath, a famous under-garment worn by Victorian women. Laura Snijders / FashionName: Laura Snijders Age: 24 Origin: The Netherlands THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE Last summer I interned in Berlin and studied how people dress. This inspired me to invent a logic for a new fashion system. I created a system that is focussed on change through place instead of time. In this system people should change something about their clothes every time they enter a new social area during a walk through the city. The obsession with change is directly linked with the obsession of belonging and not standing out; every street requires another action in order to belong and blend in. |
