“Gowns, Beautiful Gowns”
John Gosper and Isabella Capezio
8 Mar → 12 Mar 2022
“there is nothing more fashion-forward than being the best.”
“this season it’s all about winning, winning, winning.”
“someone said it’s their year, their time.”
– John Gosper
As part of Melbourne Fashion Festival, John Gosper brings together a series of installation objects, transforming Collingwood Yards with assemblages of the gritty motifs of competition, mixed with the pop-centric and ‘fash-thetic’ conventions of editorial fashion.
John Gosper is half Tongan Diaspora, half white settler living and working in Narrm. With an outlook that preferences panpsychism and idealism, they are an autodidact in astrology. John seeks to generate ways in which image-making can destabilise the neutrality of white identity through figurative embodiment. Via a recounting of the 'white' gaze, they are interested in the subversive yet omnipresent legacies of colonial conditioning. Observing the fashion image, fashion motifs are problematised.
Isabella Capezio is a photographer, lecturer, and Ph.D. candidate at RMIT University. Isabella's work and research circulate around themes of invisibility, sanctity, queerness, and landscape. Isabella coordinates the Asia Pacific Photobook Archive and has facilitated workshops and collaborative projects in Angkor Photography Festival, Obscura Photo Festival, #Dysturb, Doing Visual Politics, and the Footscray Community Arts Centre.