afterdestruction
2015
In Northern Europe daylight far and few between. The sun makes an appearance for as little as 6 hours a day. In the extreme north there can be no sun for weeks orbiting the winter solstice. This period is known as the polar night or locally as "mørketid" (literally "dark period").
In the wake of the post-industrial age, the people of the North have adapted their daily routine and their way of life to cope with modern technology. This blanket of darkness demands the people of the land to be visible to the mechanical beasts of the road - automobiles.
Bikers and pedestrians by law, in some northern countries, are required to sport reflectors in order to be seen by the headlights of cars. This mandate of reflective attire has hardly wedged it's way into the world of fashion. Afterdestruction takes a fashion archetype consisting of cheap, sterile, law-demanding products and transforms it into an elegant and timeless style.
VANAMB harnesses the power of destruction to create something fashionable juxtaposed with the function of light to make something useful. As Francis Bacon so broadly puts, "In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." afterdestruction captures this moment of harmony between chaos and clarity; destruction and construction; darkness and the light. Textile designs are made in different techniques. They have been manipulated in many destructive ways in order to give them functional and therefore protective texture.
Mentored by Prof. Tristan Pranyko.