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Matias Faldbakken โ€” Fashioned by Slavery (Oslo #5)
Matias Faldbakken

Fashioned by Slavery (Oslo #5)

2012

Matias Faldbakken's "Fashioned by Slavery (Oslo #5)" is a conceptual work that interrogates the historical and ongoing connections between luxury fashion production and exploitative labor practices. The piece combines visual and textual elements to implicate the fashion industry's complicity in systems of economic inequality that have roots in colonial and slavery-based economies. Through this work, Faldbakken challenges viewers to reckon with the ethical costs obscured by consumer culture and high-end design.

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, London

March 4, 2025

Lot 106

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Matias Faldbakken, Fashioned by Slavery (Oslo #5), 2012

Matias Faldbakken's "Fashioned by Slavery (Oslo #5)" is a conceptual work that interrogates the historical and ongoing connections between luxury fashion production and exploitative labor practices. The piece combines visual and textual elements to implicate the fashion industry's complicity in systems of economic inequality that have roots in colonial and slavery-based economies. Through this work, Faldbakken challenges viewers to reckon with the ethical costs obscured by consumer culture and high-end design.

Year
2012
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark Aesthetic, Deconstructivism, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Photography And Text, 21st Century, Political critique, Norwegian Artist, Contemporary Art, Fashion and labor

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