Radical! Chic! Fashion! Police!
a (solo) (art) show by ***XL**
May 13 – June 12, 2026
Related Events:
Mini-Mart: Saturday, May 23, 10 am-2 pm
After Hours Open House: Tuesday, June 2, 7:30-10 pm
Closing Reception + Performance: Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm
Last night was a movie. (You were streaming perpetual war.) The sidewalk is my runway. (A camera on every door.) Strike a pose. (The angle from your eye to your nose.) Anything can be a face nowadays. Who designed the costumes for those political actors? Towards stylish art; a stylist’s artist. Wearable sculpture. Appareled in criminality. Performance or the real thing? Collage as garment. The fabric of our lives. A heart on your sleeve. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Patterning, pinning, drape. A tracked body. A body of work working to evade capture. The clothes-body unit. To mend, to extend. Errant frequencies of desire. Peace-on-earth officer on the floor. Quick and easy returns. Pure time out of nowhere. Historicism’s ripped trousers. Out of the closet and into the gallery.
This show has been seized as an opportunity to continue to reincorporate one’s former loves of fashion design, styling, and image-making into their practice at large. To “put on” again fashion’s unique capacities to inspire self-discovery and solidarity, complicate cultural norms, and undermine world structures. It’s an impulse to clarify for oneself where this potential lies within the context of capitalism’s regulating drive towards self-identification through commerce, the relative ease with which one can adopt a “look”, and the persistent desire to be seen while surveillance technology infiltrates most aspects of our lives.
