Brat Summer
776 Space, 37-39 Clinton Street
New York, 10002, USA
July 17, 2025 – August 2, 2025
"Brat Summer" (2024)
Installation site-specific, 100 pieces
Mixed media on paper
in Refreshment: on the Aesthetics of Reawakening, group exhibition, NYC (2025).
Artist Statement
The installation represents a work of collection and visual translation of political life and social expectations. Through the presentation of "what brat is" (from Charli XCX's music album and trend), the installation offers a glimpse of the contemporaneity of summer 2024: from Kamala Harris's electoral campaign to the Olympics, from the fires in Greece to the Israeli-Palestinian war, from the gender issue to the trends of the moment.
The "Brat Summer" installation wants to show how mainstream culture, pop and fashion manage not only to reflect a historical moment but also to embody people's hopes and aspirations. And in doing so, the installation wants to dismantle the idea that popular culture, and fashion especially, are separate from political life - according to the same dualism that wants personal life to be separate from public life (Hanisch, 2006) - showing instead how fashion and politics are (and have always been) closely intertwined (Bartlett, 2019).
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