Open Sequence
Open Sequence is a collage created by Eran Schaerf as part of the Levantine Line Library exhibition. Inspired by Fausta Cialente’s novel Ballata levantina, the work features the main character, Daniela, whom Schaerf transposes into a contemporary multicultural context, appropriating its codes through her clothing. Here, fashion becomes a performance that encompasses clothing, accessories, gestures, images, and fragments of historical and contemporary texts. Daniela’s clothes change according to what she chooses to communicate: cultural signs do not refer to the idea of possession or loss, but rather to the continuous updating of a culture in the making. Schaerf’s gaze combines gestures and references, drawing on the culture of the Sape that originated in the Congo, known for subverting Western fashion codes in order to decolonise their meaning. The work takes up a concept developed by art historian George Kubler on the reappearance of signs across cultures.
Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Galerie Zwinger, Berlin (Allemagne)
from 14 Sep to 26 Nov 2022
Institut de carton, Bruxelles (Belgique)
from 14 May to 21 May 2022