Skip to Content

The Arts Intel Report

Mirror Mirror: Fashion and the Psyche

Installation view of Mirror Mirror: Fashion and the Psyche, 2022.

Oct 8, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023
Nationalestraat 28, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

“Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” Well, it depends. Is objectification “fair”? Isn’t rebellion more alive? Must beauty mean symmetry? What is more important: flights of imagination or the needs of the body? The exhibition at MoMu looks at recent fashion through the prism of these questions, and presents the work of artists such as Cindy Sherman, Ed Atkins, Genesis Belanger, Hans Bellmer and Genieve Figgis, in dialogue with creations by designers such as Comme des Garçons, Simone Rocha, Walter Van Beirendonck and Viktor & Rolf. Expect a “fashion show” that captures our refracted contemporary culture. —Laura Jacobs

© MoMu Antwerp, Photo: Stany Dederen