Horizon Blues is a cinematic recap of the Wales Bonner Spring Summer 2023 show at the Palazzo Medici in Florence, Italy. | dG1fMnVaSXhBb1N6OEE
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00:00I think that the conversation between different histories is important and the material allows
00:12us to be able to somehow open up those conversations which ordinarily we would have forgotten about.
00:29We've always had this history of people traveling across the country and when they did, people
00:33would always write their names and their family names on their body.
00:37And sometimes when they settled in places, they would transfer those names onto objects
00:41that they own.
00:42One way or the other, the body is somehow already transferred onto the material.
00:58One of the first times when I had a conversation with Grace, I thought it was particularly
01:02interesting how she was thinking about her fabrics in relation to space.
01:10A lot of these places that she's collecting, these ideas of fabrics from, they come with
01:20maybe certain specific histories.
01:23So I'm very much interested in the weights that the history comes with, with the architecture
01:28versus let's say these materials which are very mundane, ordinary.
01:39And that's what I thought was interesting to be able to look at the aesthetics within
01:42the clothes and how the body is contained within it versus how the idea of the body
01:47is also contained within this material but in a more abstract sense.
02:07I'm more or less interested in how we can go back in time, how we can borrow forms and
02:12ideas and how they can allow us to re-read the world.
02:22We can somehow almost pretend for a moment that we're not just coming from the present
02:27but we're coming from a distant future.
02:31And I think that for me that's when art becomes more successful, that it allows us to be able
02:35to shift our perspective of time.