OUTER WEAR 2024

OUTER WEAR is the new series of CARLOTTA HEY’s immersive art pieces that celebrate clothing as a form of self-representation. Every costume tells a story about the wearer. In this age of heightened self-consciousness, clothes make a statement before a person verbally communicates…

With a background in fashion design and styling, HEY is intimately familiar with the way the human body is a vehicle for communication – “there is so much to discover about the human body by simply looking at it closely”, she says. The artist ensures that the body and its accoutrements take centre stage through her compositional choices, maintaining a limited colour palette alongside the judicious use of negative space. This gives her room to conjure the texture of materials, with the familiar sensations of a down jacket’s springy give, leather’s soft sheen or the sharp gloss of a raincoat.

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