Maria Blaisse

1 April - 9 May 2004
Central space

Presented by the Centraal Museum, Utrecht in association with PICA This exhibition features a selection of works from the 30-year retrospective of Dutch textile designer Maria Blaisse. Curated by the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, featuring works, audiovisuals and photography that illustrate Blaisse's evolution as a designer. Blaisse has been at forefront of research and education in textiles and flexible design, using contemporary materials and processes, such as neoprene rubber, foam polyamides, vacuum moulding and lamination. Blaisse creates non-woven forms for the body that are poetic and deceptively simple. Her collaborations with designers such as Issey Miyake and costume designs for theatre and dance companies have resulted in the creation of objects that not only change the appearance of the wearer, but adapt to movements of the human body, while retaining a sculptural life their own. Blaisse's interests lie in the intersections between art and fashion incorporating video, performance and photography, in an exploration of sculptural performance with the body as a critical element in the animation of material form.