Extra Credit Event Blog

The final event I attended was at Fowler Museum.  I visited the Making Strange exhibit by Vivan Sundaram.  This exhibit featured twenty-seven mannequins wearing clothing made up of recycled materials.  This is designed to combine fashion and the brand.  This portion of the exhibit was titled Gagawaka.  The other portion of the exhibit was titled Postmortem which utilizes anatomical parts in the displays.  The combination of these two portions of the exhibit highlight the inseparable topics of fashion and the human body.  Sundaram states that he is capturing beauty and illness, pleasure and pain, life and death.  To me I felt that this exhibition displayed some of the issues that we have in today's society, and the consumer world in which we live.  Many of these pieces of artwork related to an issue within society.  One of the first pieces of artwork I encountered was of a suit hanging from the ceiling filled with medications.  This caught my attention and made me think of the problem of over prescription of drugs in today's world.  Another that was similar was made of pill wrappers.

Another was made of bras, and to me represented the obsession that people have with fashion and beauty.

This exhibition was different than what I was expecting and was very abstract, but made me think a lot about different topics and issues.  It evoked many interesting thoughts.