In additional than twenty years of curation, Marie Laurberg, the creative director and CEO of Copenhagen Modern (CC), has gained a fame for main immersive exhibitions. Many of those bridge the hole between vogue and artwork – utilizing garments as a way to inform tales and push ahead cultural values.
By approaching vogue as a medium that takes artwork onto the physique and out into the road, Laurberg is, in some ways, on the helm of Nordic vogue and its future, encouraging gallery goers to rethink what vogue is and what it could possibly be. ‘I prefer to problem these boundaries in my work. Artwork is, for my part, very expansive. Ask the artist – they’re hardly ever involved with very tight boundaries between disciplines. Neither am I,’ she says. ‘As director of CC I joined forces with three different Nordic museums and the establishment ALPHA to create exhibitions on younger experimental vogue. We need to examine the place the brand new voices will lead us.’
She explains how the exhibition Lovely Restore: Mending in Artwork and Vogue, which she curated at CC with Ane Lynge-Jorlén, explores how a brand new era of vogue designers and artists are growing a extremely artistic aesthetic of restore – utilizing upcycling, eco-friendly supplies and techniques of restore: ‘The local weather emergency is their basis, and the strategy is decidedly optimistic.’
She provides: ‘The brand new era of vogue designers make me really feel longing for the way forward for vogue. We have to develop a brand new sense of magnificence and craftsmanship; we’d like the constructive pictures of a sustainable future which accommodates all the enjoyment, creativity and pleasure that appeal to folks to vogue within the first place. ‘We now have the chance to invent new ideas of magnificence, as a result of we have to make folks need various things. New concepts will emerge from this.’
