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Title
Installation: model wearing the artist's clothes
Creator
Ruff, Daphne (installation artist)
Contributor
InSITE92
Date Created and/or Issued
1992
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Fashion, Costume and Jewelry
Sculpture and Installations
A spoof of the fashion industry, the artist created a "design studio" with finished and unfinished garments on hangars and strewn across the floor of the exhibition space. Unconventional and even dangerous materials were used (bubble wrap, rusty nails, staples, rubber etc.) to construct the clothes and other artists modeled them for a series of photographs.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 320)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Mission Brewery Plaza, San Diego (Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Bubble wrap; nails; staples; rubber (material)
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb8569622p
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Parody
Irony
Clothing
Performance art
Models (Persons)
Fashion
Humor
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE92
Place
Mexican-American border region

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