Hussein Chalayan explores identity and the postcolonial body in a new exhibition, ‘Souffleur’, taking place at Istanbul’s Sakıp Sabancı Museum
‘Disembodiment and migration are all themes I’m always concerned with,’ says Hussein Chalayan, who submits them to an anthropological dissection in a new exhibition, ‘Souffleur’., the exhibition is composed of three series and a video installation that considers both identity and the changing role of the body in the digital sphere.‘For me, all the parts are connected – that’s why I call them prompters,’ says Chalayan of the objects in the installations.
, where furniture takes on anthropomorphic qualities; drapes of material becoming body parts dangling out of a day bed, investing furniture with a sense of movement. ‘The postcolonial representation of the body is merged with fetish elements,’ Chalayan adds of the shiny material that forms the base of the pieces. ‘It’s about that submission, and I quite like the connection.’designed and directed by Chalayan, encompasses this intersection between the garments and their surrounding space.
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