Mirror Mirror, Fashion & the Psyche, a double exhibition in the Ghent Dr.
Guislain Museum and MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp, explores the connection
between fashion, psychology, self-image and identity.
Clothes and style are not only the work of well-known designers. Sometimes they
are created in isolation, for example in a psychiatric hospital or in the
privacy of one’s living room. They can fulfil desires, spread a message and
enter into dialogue with the world of fashion.
The Dr. Guislain Museum brings together creations by artists who use clothes and
textile to claim their place in the world. Even though their work belongs on the
street’s catwalk, it is rarely put in the spotlight. You’ll see designs by
Marcel Bascoulard, Jane Fradgley, Christopher Kane, Yumiko Kawai, Bas Kosters &
Ayse Somuncu, Ezekiel Messou, Giovanni Batista Podestà, Kenneth Rasmussen,
Melina Riccio, Joseph Schneller, Henry Speller, Pascal Tassini, A.F. Vandevorst,
Giuseppe Versino, ROB Walbers, Nana Yamazaki and others.
The MOMU exhibition focuses on the personal experience of the body and starts a
dialogue between art installations and avant-garde fashion. The themes in this
part of the exhibition are body dysmorphia, the meaning and history of human
replicas such as dolls and mannequins, and the symbiosis between art, fashion
and technology in the form of cyborgs and avatars.
Prefer not to wait in line at the ticket booth? Want to be sure you can discover
the Museum Dr. Guislain when you want to? Then book your tickets online in
advance and enjoy your visit to the fullest.
