MUSEUMS,
MURALS &
publications
Story-telling and artistic expression are of the highest importance to our work.
We have been fortunate to have our pieces featured in a number of books and international museum exhibitions.
voices of fashion
aT centraal museum
From the runways to the streets, designers and wearers today are upending traditional ideas about men’s and women’s clothing. But those trends in American and European fashion are not new. This exhibition looks across a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. It features more than 60 boundary-pushing designs, presenting the work of groundbreaking contemporary designers—including Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo—in the context of historical trends like the garçonne look of the 1920s and the peacock revolution of the 1960s.
March 21, 2019 – August 25, 2019.
legacy
Lucien e. Blackwell Library.
52nd st. Philadelphia
Photography by Steve Weinik
Created in partnership with Mural Arts Philadelphia, “Legacy” is a 4-panel mural that adorns the facade of the historic Lucien E. Blackwell Library and celebrates the diverse communities that comprise West Philadelphia.
Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home
At open society foundation
Another Way Home brings together eight projects led by 13 visionary artists, journalists, and creative technologists who are exploring the topic of migration through documentary practice. These artists reclaim and redefine narratives of refugee and immigrant experiences by focusing on themes of identity, community, and resilience. In addition to being selected for the Another Way Home exhibition, each featured artist will receive a fellowship for work on migration which stands at the intersection of arts, media, documentary, and social change.
Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style
Dandy Lion presents and celebrates individual dandy personalities, designers and tailors, movements and events that define contemporary dandyism. Throughout the book, self expression is communicated through personal style, clothing, shoes, hats, and swagger. Lewis’s carefully curated selection of contemporary photographs surveys the movement across the globe in spectacular form, with all of the vibrant patterns, electrifying colors, and fanciful poses of this brilliant style subculture.
AFRICAN-PRINT FASHION NOW!
at Fowler Museum UCLA
African-Print Fashion Now introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa’s newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking, transnational, and youth styles favored in Africa’s urban centers.
March 26-July 30, 2017.
Africa Rising
Fashion, Design and Lifestyle from Africa
Vibrant, bold, and enigmatic. Africa Rising showcases the work of Africa’s young creatives alongside more established artists from the voluptuous continent’s vibrant metropolises.
Published by Gestalten. September 2016.
Dey Your Lane!
at BOZAR (Brussels Center for Fine Arts)
‘Dey your Lane!’ is a typical Lagos expression for ‘mind your own business’. When you realise that Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, with a population of over 18 million, you can imagine this phrase comes in handy. With photography, video and soundscapes, the exhibition depicts the individualistic and creative dynamic generated by the huge city. See how the inhabitants of this megalopolis appropriate the public space and make their personal and collective ambitions come true. This exhibition is accompanied by a great selection of Nigerian cinema, literature and contemporary dance.
June 17, 2016 - September 4, 2016
Vlisco: African Fashion On a Global Stage
at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art
Discover how the Dutch company Vlisco became one of the most influential textile brands in West and Central African fashion and a design inspiration around the world. Known for its bold and colorful patterns, Vlisco creates fabrics that marry tradition with luxury. This exhibition explores the company’s most enduring designs, follows the creation of a new textile, and showcases a selection of contemporary fashions by African and European makers as well as Vlisco’s in-house design team.
Joan Spain Gallery, Perelman Building
April 30, 2016 – January 22, 2017
making africa
a continent of contemporary design
At Vitra Design Museum in Germany / Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) in Spain / Kunsthal Rotterdam in the Netherlands/the high museum in atlanta
Making Africa
A Continent of Contemporary Design« illustrates how design accompanies and fuels economic and political changes on the continent. Africa is presented as a hub of experimentation generating new approaches and solutions of worldwide relevance – and as a driving force for a new discussion of the potential of design in the twenty-first century.
