[n0dine] For Good Measures – in the indigo container
by Muslin Brothers
Friday [removed] – FINISSAGE
As artist duo and fashion practitioners, Muslin Brothers (Tamar Levit & Yaen Levi) focus on the changing role of clothing in our society, and in relation to our experience of time. Their current installation in n0dine is an iteration of the audio piece ‘For Good Measures’, which they developed during lockdown and which circulated among various people from April [removed];
For Good Measures starts from an intimate framework: Please position yourself in front of a mirror. It functions as a reflection score for the body to reimagine time units through hemlines, button-downs and colours, by collecting and sorting people’s memories and statements. One specific question from the audio score was taken by the Muslin Bros as an entry-point for their installation in n0dine: What was the item you wore the most lately? More than 60% of the participants answered ‘my jeans’…
Working with the shades of what used to by ‘someones jeans’, Muslin Brothers
immerse the gallery in a blue period. The indigo container proposes a collective experience and plays with impressions that are pared with light, colour, and seduction. Windows of a social housing block near the artists home in Saint-Gilles were transformed into mirror stands, and a mobile of care labels muses on our current times, through the clothes we pick out and wear. A site-specific installation that is conceived as a limbo space, where intimate stories shift, fade and merge into a new [removed];
You are warmly invited to pose yourself a last time in front of the mirror during the FINISSAGE on Friday 4 November, starting from 5 pm.
n0dine, Rue de Laekensestraat 105, 1000 Brussels
more info (NL & FR): [removed]
supported by Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Les Petits Riens, Arad Contemporary Art Center
image by Muslin Brothers |