Dressed to be seen 

The streets have long been a space to subvert colonial power and reposition agency within BIPOC and queer bodies. Dressed to be seen celebrates how BIPOC and LTBG+ bodies show resilience, offering strength in the face of adversity and joyful affirmation and self-love, documenting intimacy and indomitability.

This is a group of artists who inspire, challenge, and engage with Fashion and its subversive characteristics, reflecting a BIPOC point of view. These are are artist that are interested in exploring how the works engage with each other, suggesting alternatives that use Fashion to traverse our present, disseminate future forms of knowledge, center collective healing, and forge new vocabularies to stake our claim to our place in society.

What is beautiful has always been in the eye of the beholder: beauty has historically been defined as a denial of what is different, a source of hostile reactions, violent repulsions, fear, and even terror. Therefore, dissident Fashion seeks to identify and analyze the relationship between Fashion and otherness - everyday expressions that re-signify the ugly and, at the same time, highlight the logic and constructions of contemporary society. It seeks to examine the relationship between Fashion and power to question its scope in current local and global culture.

Dissident Fashion will celebrate a diverse range of approaches by the BIPOC gaze from multiple viewpoints in a publication that brings together BIPOC practices from the social sciences, the arts, and the fashion industry. Dressed to be seen will be the first of many more Dissident Fashion projects, an initiative that aims to question traditional notions of Eurocentric Fashion. Dissident Fashion will examine Fashion from the Afro-Indigenous point of view, using radical imagination as a tool for colonial subjects to gain agency through re-contextualized dress and adornment. We believe that by putting disobedience as a praxis of liberation at the center of the discussion, clothing is not a weapon of domination and control but a tool of empowerment and subversion. Dissident Fashion will be divided into a publication, video, an exhibition/performance, and an artist’s colloquium.

Curated by Charo Oquet

Participating artists: ARTIST

Altemus, Dona Alvarez, Eddy (Male Model)
Araujo, Arantxa Bennion, Adah
Bluusa Bluu
Brant, Pip
Chellet, Maria Eugenia D, Gianna
Dieguez, Victor
Dumit Estévez Raful, Nicolás Dziemaszkiewicz, Krzysztof Leon Eusebio, Diana
House Pencil Green humanjuices
Jan & Dave
Jazzar, Carol
Kali Virga, Pangea Leblancstudios Lechedevirgen
Leechy
LoLo,LuLu
Luan, Breno
Mijail CasSllo, Johan Oquet, Charo
Paiz, Aminta
Rivera, Geraldine Rossi Campos, Wagner Sherrard, Kalan
Spiller, Micki
Toribio, Koco
Vanoni, Anabel