Josefin Wilkens
Textile Artist / Performance Designer
Josefin Wilkens
Textile Artist / Performance Designer
Lieu
Malmö, Suède
Seniorité
3 - 5 ans d'expérience
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Restricted Movements is a experimental fashion design research project. It explores the performative and communicative potential of garments and objects in relation to space. The project investigates the relationship and possibilities of garments, how it can be used to influence the body and its move

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ments. The project uses restriction and interaction as methods for creating new possibilities in wearing and moving.

This work is presented as video performances. The term Performance has many different significations. According to the Oxford Dictionary (2019), it can be seen as the act of performing a task or as the presentation of for example a music piece. In the context of this work, performance should be understood as the act of using the body as the main tool for expressing an art piece. In this practice the artist's body could be viewed as being “both the subject the object of the art” (Johansson, 2018).

This research is located at the intersection of fashion and art. Fashion in itself is a way of performing. The clothes can transform the wearer, this is often used to express political status, profession, personality, subculture or status to name a few (Johansson 2018). This work could be described as conceptual fashion that works interdisciplinary between the fields of fine arts (Bugg 2009). One could also refer to the practice as speculative fashion, a type of fashion that speculates in how something could look on a body without knowing. Only by trying it out one can find the answer, but even then the piece can change depending on the circumstances. (Larsen 2019)

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Stockholm Fashion week 2019
The Auktion house in Stockholm août. 2019 - Présent
Suède

Graduate show with the other graduates from The Swedish School of Fashion.

Master
The Swedish School of Textiles sept.. 2, 2017 - juin. 5, 2019
Borås, Suède

Master in fine arts - Fashion design

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Exhibiton
The Textile Museum in Borås avr.. 2019 - mai. 2019
Suède

I showed pieces from my ongoing master project.

CEO
Wilkens Vintage AB 2011 - 2019
Suède

I started my own company in 2011 that bought and soled vintage clothes online. The company has been on hold during my studies.

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Internship
Ann-sofie BACK juin. 2018 - août. 2018
Suède

I interned at the Swedish fashion designer Ann-Sofie Back during the summer of 2018. While I was there I got to be a part of project development, garment construction and sales.

Bachelor
The University for Design and Crafts sept.. 2, 2014 - juin. 3, 2017
Dals Långed, Suède

Bachelor in textile-craft, art and design.

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Exchange
Rhode Island School of Design août. 15, 2016 - déc.. 20, 2016
Rhode Island, États-Unis

Exchange semester in my third year of bachelor. I studied both in the textile and fashion departments.

Compétences logiciels

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Langues

anglais

Courant

français

Capacité professionnelle

suédois

Langue natale