At MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary, Gypsy Sport designer (and LA native) Rio Uribe debuted a collaboration featuring costumes for an exploration of identity politics against the backdrop of Trump’s America.
Rio Uribe has made his mark on Frieze Week Los Angeles. On Saturday at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary, the Gypsy Sport designer and L.A. native debuted his collaboration with Paris-based artists and choreographers Gerard & Kelly . Uribe created costumes for the U.S. premiere of, the duo’s 2017 dance performance piece, an exploration of identity politics against the backdrop of Trump’s America.
Having weathered the kind of fickle highs and lows all too familiar to independent designers, Uribe draws a parallel between the fractured political landscape and what’s going on in fashion. “The same way that American identity is in flux, I think fashion is. We’re like, ‘What the hell is the fashion industry?’” In response, this season he joined the growing ranks of designers to opt out of New York Fashion Week, instead choosing to focus his creative energies on.
Gerard & Kelly’s choreography for the piece played on a tension of strength and vulnerability. Smooth would hold a gravity-defying pose on the pole, Adonis-like, before collapsing into Stuckey and Kelly’s arms to recover. It was a depiction of masculinity that was arresting in its tenderness. Other movements nodded to familiar imagery, from military marches to giving dap, and even a full-on game of Capture the Flag.
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