FASHION SHOW 2018
Performance
158 plastic bags, sewn together, 180 x 670 cm
Billing Bild Gallery, Baar
6.5.2018
Choreographer: Patricia Jacomella
Performer: Mercé de Rande
In Fashion Show, a performance oscillating between seduction and suffocation, the artist constructs a dress from 158 plastic bags, an emblem of both beauty and toxicity. As the performer is progressively wrapped in layers of plastic, fascination gives way to unease until the body collapses, lifeless, under the weight of its synthetic shell.
The work critiques the aesthetics of consumption and the environmental cost of glamour. By transforming a catwalk into a ritual of asphyxiation, Jacomella Bonola exposes fashion’s complicity in the culture of excess and disposability. Fashion Show thus becomes a visceral warning, a tragic choreography of desire turned fatal.
Credits: © Patricia Jacomella Bonola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUZEXWUlh1E