The Toronto-based artist’s “Laundry” series is now on view in New York City for the very first time.
, creating his latest work, “Laundry,” was a cathartic feat. The series includes a collection of paintings that represent the artist’s examinations of how fashion can be an outward-facing experience driven by the utterly personal. In the second iteration, “Laundry 002—A Thread Is a Vein,” Garrison-Msingwana’s work sits at many intersections that inform people’s relationship to fashion: sustainability, access, popular culture, isolation, identity, and more.
My mom’s side of the family is American. My aunt and uncle actually lived in LES for 15 years, so when I was growing up, I would visit all the time. As I got older, I made friends online that just happened to be based in Brooklyn and LES as well. The opening was crazy for me, because it was a merging of two of my worlds. Some of the pieces in the show even reference America in one way or another.
From a philosophical perspective, the idea of reflecting your ego in an outward way and trying to influence how people perceive you is an interesting prospect. And I think the way you look as a person can only change so much. I mean, we’re able to more and more, which I think is great, but clothing is such a tried-and-true way of expressing yourself.
Definitely. A big thing for me and what I’m doing is trying to normalize and show how smart and multidimensional a Black person can be in the context of North America, specifically, where we still are oppressed or boxed in. It’s super important to show the kaleidoscope of my experience, which is growing and changing—and all of us are this way. It’s not just white people that get to be this way.The first thing I do when I wake up is just lie there.
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