Karaka_design & ETO

From the foreword by Maša Štrbac about the FASHION CONSTRUCTION exhibition

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Product designer Ada Kezić and fashion designers Vesna Karuza and Senija Radić have combined their knowledge in designing unique objects for sitting, and perhaps also for playing. Ada Kezić's furniture is characterized by minimalism, the bearer of her expression are refined geometric shapes made of carefully selected materials, perfectly finished. Senija Radić's and Vesna Karuza's clothes are emphatically sculptural, shaped by tailoring into organic volumes that wrap around the body or go out into the space. At this exhibition, they present works that emerged from the dialogue of their different expressions and media, and connect product and fashion design.

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"In the consumerist society in which we live, we quickly get fed up with the same interior and the furniture in it, we tend to replace it with a new one, even though there is no need for it, especially if we previously invested in quality and durable furniture," say the authors. Instead of buying new furniture, they offer its simple reupholstering in differently designed textiles. Furniture covers are the subject of design reflections on the international scene as well, new materials are being researched, those from the field of high fashion are introduced, their tactile qualities, associative strings of meanings are played with, they are made of 3D knits that can be torn apart and reused. Senija and Vesna approached upholstery as clothing and enriched it with 3D shapes, pleats created by folding, folding and layering textiles, and those that protrude more prominently into the space in the form of various spikes and conical, cone-shaped forms.

Part of the upholstery was made for Pilates balls, which often roll around our living spaces against our will. Filled with air, light and mischievous, they gave the authors the opportunity to indulge in true sculptural design in textiles, unencumbered by functional requirements. As if in some kind of masquerade, they disguised them as different creatures with wings and spikes which nevertheless, at the slightest turn, lay down, revealing their delicate nature, which is made of textiles. The textile envelops them, gathers, shrinks or stretches around them, follows their shape with spherical shapes and spiral seams. Longer and shorter spikes, cones grow out of the seams, which transform the balls into cones, urchins or more abstract forms in which the user itself writes the meaning.

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