Visitors will discover the garments and accessories as a series of discrete interventions across 27 galleries spread over two locations. To facilitate this exchange, DS+R conjures the integrative and immersive framework of Catholic space. Contemporary designers often draw on the same pool of timeless Christian imagery as the Byzantine and medieval artists represented in The Met’s collection, creating potential for powerful resonances between modern garments and historic artworks. More than a stage or a container, Catholic space is the holistic integration of a multisensory aesthetic experience.įashion is a natural extension of this model, sculpting ineffable fantasies into a discourse on cultural inheritance-Catholicism included. Scripture, music, architecture, art, and decorative arts work in concert to engender collectivity, ritual, and devotion. Church liturgy is an immersive interweaving of diverse art forms.
The Catholic imagination invoked by the show’s title suggests a constellation of images, a world of immanence in which the spiritual is accessible via the sensual. DS+R’s approach to this project examines the notion of ‘Catholic space’ to enable a dialogue between Fashion and medieval Christian art, the exhibit’s inceptive curatorial gesture.Ĭatholic space is an intricate mise-en-scene. The Costume Institute’s spring 2018 exhibition features Papal robes and accessories from the Sistine Chapel sacristy (many of which have never been seen outside The Vatican) and fashions from the early twentieth century to the present, shown in the Byzantine and medieval galleries and at The Met Cloisters. Professor Elizabeth Diller and her team at Diller Scofidio + Renfro have designed the exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" on view now through Octoat the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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