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October 08, 2005

NIEVES, ZURICH from Mike Mills

NIEVES, ZURICH
10/8/05

Benjamin from Nieves put together a show of Humans work at his studio in Zurich. He also published a little book of the latest Humans work I've done. I was so happy to see his installation, especially the fabric panels below, I never thought of the fabrics being presented in this way. I want to make Humans more and more collaborative: both by encouraging people to make their own work with my fabrics/ribbons/etc. - and for my designs to incorporate more things that are not "mine" (history, facts, systems, imagery I found, other people's lives). I feel like I'm at the beginning of a new way to work. I also thought Benjamin's installation hit the right balance between the fabrics/ shirts/bags/ribbons being ephemeral consumer objects and "art". Somehow I want the work to have the cultural position of both a T-shirt and a painting at the same time. I like how contradictory that sounds.

Mike

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Posted by Humans at October 8, 2005 06:25 AM