The prêt-à-partager exhibition is a transnational artistic dialogue on fashion, sport, Africa and its Diaspora. These collected works take the varied meanings and possibilities of clothing and fashion as determined by society and individuals and explore them in myriad ways that go beyond their function as consumer goods or economic factors. The Dakar metropolitan area serves as the stage for the protagonists of a world in constant flux, where concepts of identity are fluid.
The artists have utilised the tapestries of their own history and familiarisation with new cultural practices to develop striking works, hybrid creations which are socially explosive.
The artworks presented in the exhibition originated in the prêt-à-partager workshop in Dakar in November 2008. The exhibition which was curated by Elke aus dem Moore and Sandrine Micosse will go on a two-year tour of different countries in West, East and South Africa.
Exhibition catalogue
prêt-à-partager. a transcultural exchange in art, fashion and sports – Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), 2009. – 167 pp. – Order Catalogue
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