Artist Talk – Revisit Archive Species
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15.11.2024
Joke Robaard, Limestone Books x Fashion Clash
Artist Joke Robaard was invited to participate in a talk organized by FASHIONCLASH in collaboration with Limestone Books. In 2018, she co-published Archive Species with writer Camiel van Winkel, a work that explores representations of the body in clothing within print media since the 1970s. Together, they selected images from Robaard's archive and arranged them into dynamic series or cycles, generating new narratives and unexpected pathways of meaning. By employing artistic strategies of appropriation and alienation, the authors reveal crucial connections between body, object, and behavior in an elaborate attempt to uncover the hidden cultural and political layers of fashion photography.
Based on this publication, we invite Joke Robaard to once again discuss the extensive fashion and newspaper image archive she has been collecting since 1979, how she has opened up this archive, and what messages it holds for the broader fashion community.