Inspired by Raymond Queneau to tell a simple story in 99 different ways, fashion designer Ying Gao (*1973 China) and her Canadian-based lab "Exercices de Style" are applying the same principle to fashion design. At [plug.in] Ying Gao will present five ways to tell a story about fashion in a solo exhibition from January 17th to March 1st.

Ying Gao's fashion explores the interface between media art and fashion design by subtly infusing technology to create aesthetically innovative forms and structures. Inspired by air, light and water, her interactive garments respond to transformations in the physical and social environment. They react both playfully and lightly, are at once vivid, ephemeral and fluid as they are "shaped" by their immediate surroundings.
Designed and modified by technological software, Ying Gao’s themed collections reflect on social tendencies as they expose and challenge the functionality and structure of contemporary fashion and conventions within the fashion system.

Curated by Céline Studer, in collaboration with Doris Gassert.
With thanks to Sabine Seymour.

Generously supported by:
Hulda & Gustav Zumsteg-Stiftung
Swiss Textile Federation

Links:

exercicesdestyle.com

See also:

Radio Basel 1, Agenda, 26.02.2009

Daniel Bossart, Art-TV.ch, on Ying Gao, 21.02.2009

Dietrich Roeschmann, Regioartline, zu Ying Gao, 20.02.2009

Nathalie Baumann, Basler Zeitung, on Ying Gao, 31.01.2009

Andrea Mašek, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, zu Ying Gao, 27.01.2009

Roderick Hönig, Hochparterre-Schweiz.ch, on Ying Gao, 27.01.2009

modabot.de, on Ying Gao, 20.01.2009

Kim Dang, NZZ am Sonntag, on Ying Gao, 18.01.2009

Fashionable Technology Research Consortium, FASHIONABLE TECHNOLOGY REPORT December 2008, on Ying Gao, 17.12.2008

Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, on Ying Gao, 06.12.2008

Judith Niederberger, TVS-Newsletter Dez 2008, on Ying Gao, 01.12.2008

Boleroweb.ch, on Ying Gao, 07.11.2008