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beauty fashion culture index constança

curatorial practices offer really interesting ways to connect natureculture(s)^[1],as contemporary museums start to think of space outside linear materiality. telling stories beyond our own bodies through material cultures is a challenge shared between fashion and museology^[2].

nevertheless both complement each other.

i’ve moved through museums to navigate these ideas. spent a year writing at the institute of contemporary arts in london (ica): letters on nature, liquidity, and the beauty industry

and worked across serpentine galleries, seeing how architecture,design,and fashion came together.

the wet drapery figures of the parthenon’s east pediment (british museum) - clothing depicted as if soaked by water and pressed by wind against the body - represent both fabric and nature without any textile at all, form and weather carved entirely through stone. an ancient sculpture already exploring the bridge between touching nature and wearing, and what fashion might look like beyond textiles.

^{[1] haraway, d. (2003) the companion species manifesto: dogs, people, and significant otherness. chicago: prickly paradigm press.

[2] cameron, f.r. (2023) ‘museum practices and the posthumanities: curating for planetary habitability’.}