WONDERINGMODE

Abstract

“Wonderingmode” was a title of the exhibition realized in the Center of Contemporary Art in Torun (Poland) from March till June 2013, and being it the first exhibition dedicated to contemporary experimental fashion and jewelry design organized in one Polish art institution. With this text I wished to give an insight to the motivations that led to the realization of it. Posing question how fashion should be not only exhibited, but considered within the frame of more serious theoretical discourse, this text brings together reflections about the term fashion (in French “la mode”) from the time of its birth as a social phenomena in the dawn of the Modern Era, and about the potential meanings that this term might acquire today, through the prism of different creative and conceptual approaches operated by young generations of artists and fashion-designers.