Graduation exhibition of master Critical Fashion Practices

A Haunting Presence refers to an act of un-forgetting - a gesture of running a finger along a crack in the pavement, a childlike peek through the hole in your T-shirt, sparked by a quiet wonder about what lies on the other side. This exhibition draws attention to the often-imperceptible traces left behind: by hands, by bodies, by garments, by water, and by the passage of time. It centers human practices that flourish on the fringes of the fashion industry - like weeds growing at the edges of a tamed garden. By engaging with rhythms our muscles innately remember, they invite a reimagining of fashion not as a polished cycle of repetition, but as thoughtful and attentive processes. They ask, what if absence was not an empty space, but a site of latent potential? What would change if we allowed ourselves to be guided by the absences that haunt us?

On behalf of Generation #33 – Marco Blaževic, Giulia Coluccello, Alexis Mersmann, Carolina Sepúlveda, Xingyun Shen, Miruna Vlad

MA Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts is aimed at unlearning imposed modes of production, presentation, and consumption, moving beyond neo-liberal capitalist constraints determined by the traditional fashion industry. It supports its participants in developing a critical fashion practice that takes shape in active practice-resistance-research-scholarship.

Want to join?

Space is limited, so please RSVP latest 13 June via email: CriticalFashionPractices@ArtEZ.nl. Your presence during the full programme is appreciated.