When you pull a foil bag of potato chips down from the shelf in the supermarket, you're usually thinking only about its contents. But when that same colorful bag is used as a cover for an art catalog, the disposable wrapping has suddenly turned into an ambiguous, sophisticated artifact.
That's just what Annette Meyer did, at her first exhibitions in Japan, held this summer. The 35-year-old Danish artist exhibited 60 tailor-made suits fashioned from disposable wrapping material at the Kyoto Art Center (in June) and the first-floor Spiral Garden of Tokyo's Spiral building (in July). In a special event to mark the Tokyo opening of the installation, Bodywrapp Inc., 20 Japanese models strode through the streets and subway stations wearing Meyer's garments.
This month, Meyer was summoned back to Tokyo to coordinate an event for the Japanese bimonthly magazine, EAT.