Eva Petrič: Rubik’s Cube of Recycled Shadows&E@motions, Museum Plattform Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
INDAY/NIGHTOUT:
InDayNightOut – a fashion collection that does not sleep!
InDayNightOut is a fashion collection that turns around the clock, not just in terms of our chronological clock, but also our biological one. It is a dialog between black and white, turning around the clock, clockwise and anti-clockwise... It can be worn in any season, at any time of the day or night – night&day! Both sides, InDay and NightOut, can be combined with each other and recombined with other collections. Utilizing old patterns of lace and dollies collected from all over the world and combined to form, in this case, my Human Fish* lace assemblage, separate segments were extracted from it as DNA parts and hand printed on each piece of clothing separately.
InDayNightOut collection is soft with its wool basis and reminds of tradition and connection, giving a feeling of safety and transgenerational connection. With recombining its two different poles (InDay and NightOut - white with black prints and black with white prints), it is crossing borders of tradition, looking to the future – reaffirming fashion as a vision as well as offering our bodies warmth, love, respect and, last but not least, a voice for expression and beliefs.
InDayNightOut does not believe in “the right way” of wearing cloths. Going beyond that, it crosses borders of gender, culture, time and belief systems. It goes by what feels right, giving a voice to the inner world of our collective unconsciousness where day and night are one and where white and black are both essential elements and reside happily and respectfully side by side, supporting one another - as do all the separate laces in my Human Fish image - the blue print of my InDayNightOut collection.
InDayNightOut is not just a fashion collection. It is an “art to wear” collection where each dress is a unique piece, which stems from my art installations, extending into real life - in real time - day and night!