The exhibition “Stitches, Hooks, and the Red Thread” is a curatorial reflection on the theme of clothing and everything related to it in art of the 20th — early 21st century, based on works from the MMOMA collections..
Every word in the exhibition’s title can be read in both a literal and a figurative sense. The theme of clothing runs like a red thread through the history of art, and each work in the halls is another stitch, binding the authors’ personal statements into a new pattern. The exhibition design is based on the principle of an “open wardrobe” — by analogy with the well‑known exhibition technique of “open storage”. The viewer is invited to open the door of an imaginary wardrobe and discover works by renowned masters of contemporary art.
The exhibition features more than fifty works, including paintings, graphics, photographs, videos, objects and installations that offer a fresh perspective on familiar items from the wardrobe. From early medieval painting to modern installations, clothing has remained a marker not only of a character’s personality but also of their social position. Artists have carried an amazing and vivid "baggage" of shawls, hats, camisoles, jackets, warm-up jackets, T-shirts, socks and other objects through the centuries, offering to understand time and the person in it through these details.
Curators: Vladimir Prokhorov, Elizaveta Yudakova
The text is taken from the MMOMA website.