Woven Realities – Clothing, Culture, and Capitalism

November 20 – December 4, 2024

This show is a collaboration of students from SoCA’s Professional Skills for Visual Artists, a UFV course led by Candace Couse, PhD, that culminates in a public group exhibition on campus. As a unifying theme, the artists explore the multifaceted topic of clothing, examining how these seemingly ordinary objects are imbued with complex, often fraught tensions that surge beneath their aura of everyday objecthood. The politics of sustainability, capitalism, environmental destruction and culture are all taken up to ask: How does the fabric of our clothing weave together narratives of exploitation, innovation, and transformation toward equity and ecological responsibility?