MIRROR
Mirror takes its title from Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical film of 1975, a work preoccupied with memory, time, and the layered texture of personal history. The same concerns animate this MA collection, which moves between the precision of tailored construction and the slow, irreversible logic of wet felting, using locally sourced wool from Odsherred.
The collection draws on a range of cultural and formal references: Tarkovsky’s cinematography and prose writings; the Slavic mythological figures of Alkonost and Sirin, understood here as a binary system of opposing forces; and the reductive spatial thinking of Suprematism and Abstract Minimalism. These are not applied as surface references but absorbed into the material process itself.
Each garment is made from biodegradable and deadstock materials: European linen twill, chosen for its capacity to register the traces of time and the body; repurposed silk; and hand-felted wool. The work treats making as a form of thinking, tactile, cumulative, and resistant to the instant.
The sculptural garments emerge through a process of active material exploration: wool felted by hand into three-dimensional form, linen tailored from archival patterns, draped elements cut on the bias to produce asymmetrical silhouettes that appear off balance yet remain in equilibrium with the body.
Photography: Longfei Wang
Model: Mai Sakamoto
Assistance: Vital Sinkevich
The collection works entirely within a closed material logic: locally sourced and deadstock fibres, zero-waste pattern cutting, and craft techniques developed through making rather than prescribed in advance. The result is work that is at once aesthetically precise, technically rigorous, and resistant to disposability.
