Exhibition Launch: Revealing Dress
A new exhibition exploring the power of fashion as portraiture
Fri
14
Fri 14 Nov 4:00 PM
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Performance Space
General Admission
All Ages
180 MinsYou are invited to the launch of Revealing Dress: Fashion as Portraiture, a major new exhibition at Liverpool Powerhouse.
Places are strictly limited, please RSVP by Thursday, 6 November, 5 pm.
Join us for an exclusive afternoon event introducing this ambitious new exhibition, which explores fashion as a powerful visual language that tells stories, expresses identity, and reveals emotion in ways words cannot.
Guests will be welcomed with drinks and appetizers by Bellbird Bar and Dining, giving you the opportunity to meet the artists and preview Bellbird’s summer menu.
Following a welcome from Luke Létourneau, Curatorial and Collections Lead, guests will be guided through the exhibition offering insights into how their work explores the role of fashion in shaping how we see ourselves and others.
Program
4:00pm – Guest arrival
4:30pm – Welcome and introductions
6:00pm – Exhibition experience with music or self-guided tour
7:00pm – Event close
ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS
An exhibition about dressing with intention.
Revealing Dress is a new exhibition that celebrates fashion as a visual language with the power to tell stories in ways words cannot.
Through the works of contemporary artists and designers, it explores the ways art and fashion harness clothing to tell stories using the shared language of drape, colour, silhouette and gesture. The exhibition features newly commissioned installations, nationally significant artworks from the past 15 years, and runway looks direct from Australian Fashion Week.
While its themes are wide-ranging, Revealing Dress always returns to the body. Fashion is a relational art: it’s about garments animated by bodies, threads of culture and time woven together, and the act of seeing and being seen.
This is an exhibition for our current moment, a moment where we have never been more exposed. We are surveilled through social media and societal expectations. But fashion harnesses this visibility and allows the body to be a site of resistance and reinvention. It invites audiences to consider how we are seen, and what we choose to reveal about ourselves through the garments that adorns our bodies.
For any enquiries, please contact:
Arianne Bulanos (Curatorial Assistant and Exhibitions Administrator)
02 8711 7832
bulanosa@liverpool.nsw.gov.au
Places are strictly limited, please RSVP by Thursday, 6 November, 5 pm.
Join us for an exclusive afternoon event introducing this ambitious new exhibition, which explores fashion as a powerful visual language that tells stories, expresses identity, and reveals emotion in ways words cannot.
Guests will be welcomed with drinks and appetizers by Bellbird Bar and Dining, giving you the opportunity to meet the artists and preview Bellbird’s summer menu.
Following a welcome from Luke Létourneau, Curatorial and Collections Lead, guests will be guided through the exhibition offering insights into how their work explores the role of fashion in shaping how we see ourselves and others.
Program
4:00pm – Guest arrival
4:30pm – Welcome and introductions
6:00pm – Exhibition experience with music or self-guided tour
7:00pm – Event close
ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS
An exhibition about dressing with intention.
Revealing Dress is a new exhibition that celebrates fashion as a visual language with the power to tell stories in ways words cannot.
Through the works of contemporary artists and designers, it explores the ways art and fashion harness clothing to tell stories using the shared language of drape, colour, silhouette and gesture. The exhibition features newly commissioned installations, nationally significant artworks from the past 15 years, and runway looks direct from Australian Fashion Week.
While its themes are wide-ranging, Revealing Dress always returns to the body. Fashion is a relational art: it’s about garments animated by bodies, threads of culture and time woven together, and the act of seeing and being seen.
This is an exhibition for our current moment, a moment where we have never been more exposed. We are surveilled through social media and societal expectations. But fashion harnesses this visibility and allows the body to be a site of resistance and reinvention. It invites audiences to consider how we are seen, and what we choose to reveal about ourselves through the garments that adorns our bodies.
For any enquiries, please contact:
Arianne Bulanos (Curatorial Assistant and Exhibitions Administrator)
02 8711 7832
bulanosa@liverpool.nsw.gov.au
