KORRUPTA by Monica Bernar Sosa and Anastasiia Sergachova
ART AS A VEHICLE FOR DIALOGUE
Our creative work is a reflection of the society where young and old aspire, dream, set goals and ambitions and struggle with the reality that each of us is confronted and presented.
Our collection is a dichotomy and a metaphor of the world in which we live. Our politicians and oligarchs are keenly talented in putting lipstick and spin on the endemic socio-economic corruption that enslaves the people of a nation full of talents and resources.
We presented this collection to showcase the problem of corruption in Ukrainian society through fashion art: fashion as the catalyst and evaluation of the hypocrisy between poverty and wealth.
This project will help achieve recognition on a global stage that Ukrainian fashion IS relevant, poignant, intellectual and political.
The main properties of fashion are constant change, revision and innovation. We hope that collections like this will spur our collective consciousness towards a better society.
We were pressed with having no choice in choosing CORRUPTION as our theme.
Corruption is endemic, cancerous, insidious and limiting to a nation’s people of opportunities. Societies are fabrics, interwoven and laced by custom, history, collective ideals and collective aspirations. Our society, like others around the world are weighed by the consumption of the very wealthy and the detritus that is fed to the rest of us. We live from tear to tear, frayed.
The main message of the collection is that each of us must learn to weave the fabric of our future and together stitch a colorful rich inclusive tapestry.
This important social art project will help focus public attention on the image of corruption as a "sophisticated" and “seductive” enterprise that tears the fabric and integrity of our society.
The collection consists entirely of white color (only two models will be made red to symbolize Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the autonomous republic of Crimea will be made completely from burlap and the model will be blindfolded) to show how our corruption is so pure and incorrigible. Like magic, corruption enchants and seduces.
Dress frontal areas are pure white, clean and devoid of lines to symbolize feigned sincerity, messianic role, and pretense.
Dress back areas have burlap details with lacing that are intended to expose symbolically the true essence of corruption.
Burlap symbolizes the torn fabric of a socio-economic and a politically divided society and is a symbol of Ukraine’s tradition as an agrarian culture.
The design is intentionally made seductive and sexy to show how our politicians, oligarchs and officials are easily attracted and seduced by corruption. All sleeves are long and drape to the floor concealing the hands of theft and graft and their reach.
Models will walk on the podium profiling different stages or levels of corruption. Some simply drag their sleeves while other models flail their arms and make their long sleeves act like wings hovering above the judicial system and the rule of law pretending to be angels.
At the end of the models’ podium walk, while models continue to showcase and flail, the lights dim for a few seconds and young Ukrainian artists embedded in the audience come up to models and paint the dresses in an improvised manner with the colors of the Ukrainian flag as a gesture or national solidarity and recognition.
ART AS A VEHICLE FOR DIALOGUE
Our creative work is a reflection of the society where young and old aspire, dream, set goals and ambitions and struggle with the reality that each of us is confronted and presented.
Our collection is a dichotomy and a metaphor of the world in which we live. Our politicians and oligarchs are keenly talented in putting lipstick and spin on the endemic socio-economic corruption that enslaves the people of a nation full of talents and resources.
We presented this collection to showcase the problem of corruption in Ukrainian society through fashion art: fashion as the catalyst and evaluation of the hypocrisy between poverty and wealth.
This project will help achieve recognition on a global stage that Ukrainian fashion IS relevant, poignant, intellectual and political.
The main properties of fashion are constant change, revision and innovation. We hope that collections like this will spur our collective consciousness towards a better society.
We were pressed with having no choice in choosing CORRUPTION as our theme.
Corruption is endemic, cancerous, insidious and limiting to a nation’s people of opportunities. Societies are fabrics, interwoven and laced by custom, history, collective ideals and collective aspirations. Our society, like others around the world are weighed by the consumption of the very wealthy and the detritus that is fed to the rest of us. We live from tear to tear, frayed.
The main message of the collection is that each of us must learn to weave the fabric of our future and together stitch a colorful rich inclusive tapestry.
This important social art project will help focus public attention on the image of corruption as a "sophisticated" and “seductive” enterprise that tears the fabric and integrity of our society.
The collection consists entirely of white color (only two models will be made red to symbolize Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the autonomous republic of Crimea will be made completely from burlap and the model will be blindfolded) to show how our corruption is so pure and incorrigible. Like magic, corruption enchants and seduces.
Dress frontal areas are pure white, clean and devoid of lines to symbolize feigned sincerity, messianic role, and pretense.
Dress back areas have burlap details with lacing that are intended to expose symbolically the true essence of corruption.
Burlap symbolizes the torn fabric of a socio-economic and a politically divided society and is a symbol of Ukraine’s tradition as an agrarian culture.
The design is intentionally made seductive and sexy to show how our politicians, oligarchs and officials are easily attracted and seduced by corruption. All sleeves are long and drape to the floor concealing the hands of theft and graft and their reach.
Models will walk on the podium profiling different stages or levels of corruption. Some simply drag their sleeves while other models flail their arms and make their long sleeves act like wings hovering above the judicial system and the rule of law pretending to be angels.
At the end of the models’ podium walk, while models continue to showcase and flail, the lights dim for a few seconds and young Ukrainian artists embedded in the audience come up to models and paint the dresses in an improvised manner with the colors of the Ukrainian flag as a gesture or national solidarity and recognition.
