Happy to present “Sartor Resartus” at @hfkd_exhibitionspace opening Friday the 20th. With @nina_beier_ @asbfyi @piacamil @86.others @a_cinema_verite_kind_of_girl @ernatmack @tenantofculture @isywod @brunozhu . In 1836, Thomas Carlyle published “Sartor Resartus” (“The Tailor Retailored”), a satirical novel about the fictional German philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh and his thesis “Clothes: Their Origin and Influence.” Teufelsdröckh’s groundbreaking project fails and is never finished, but Carlyle can still be credited for having accidentally invented the concept of fashion semiotics: the reading of clothes as symbols of meaning. As the book makes clear, the deciphering of fashion’s signifiers is a near-impossible task, as they exist in a constant state of flux between personal, material, political, historical, and cultural signification. This has only been accelerated further in today’s globalized consumer society, where fashion commodities and languages of style continuously drift across social and economic contexts, where they morph and produce meaning anew. Adapting Carlyle’s non-methodological methodology of fashion as an “impossible medium,” “Sartor Resartus” presents artworks that attempt to decipher and understand the ubiquity of clothing in society, objects at once intensely banal and forever fascinating. Coinciding with the opening of "Sartor Resartus" is the launch of the second issue of @viscose_journal, the journal for fashion criticism and research, published in partnership with Huset for Kunst og Design. The issue, featuring a wide range of contributors from around the world, extends the exhibition's inquiry into clothing as it appears in art. Copies will exclusively be for sale at Huset for Kunst og Design for 150 DKK.