Brat Summer
Installation site-specific.
100 pieces, mixed media on paper, 2024.
Synopsis
The installation represents a work of collection and visual translation of political life and social expectations through Charlie XCX's 2024 brand "Brat".
Through the presentation of "what brat is", 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 while doing it, it 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).