Ingrid Kraftchenko The Body of Architecture '25 Press Show - Catwalk & Presentation

Ingrid Kraftchenko presents 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 - The Body of Architecture No Season '25 Press Show - Catwalk & Presentation; a hybrid immersive site specific performance piece showcasing her newest collection The Body of Architecture No Season '25 at Dollhouse, 18-19 Glebe Road London E8 4BD 07/12/24. Launch night 07/12/24. The Exhibtion will run open to the public 08/12/24 - 29/12/24. 

Performers: Fung Neo (Chronic Illness), Viktoria Tchibor, Lara Girling Guras, Petrichor, Saki + more. Soundtrack by Sin of The Father. Architectural Soundscapes by Nova Varnable. Other exhibiting Artists: Amelia Barnath, Kenji Siratori, Ralph Whitehead. 

She presents her Press Show off the schedule at her newly opened Dollhouse - Kraftchenko Atelier & Film Studios. Kraftchenko explored themes of sexuality, violence, resistance and survival. 

She questions who is safe and who is disposable by re-understanding the 'Body as Architecture' and her thematic reearch project of 'TheSuitaloon' and the current capitalist supply and demand and priority for protective, post-utilitarian juxtaposed transformable clothing and bespoke accessories fusing a delicate use of resilient fabrics. The Body of Architecture '25 unfolds at Kraftchenko Atelier, as an exploratory site-specific work and invites the audience to immerse themselves in the performance and Architecture of her first London Atelier & store. 

Kraftcehnko's deconstruction of clothes as well as her atelier architecture, both point at industrial collapse and are mobilised as critique of fashion production through renegotiation of functionality, Kraftchenko's modus operandi is based on pre-existing, deadstock and sustainable natural and technical materials that become involved in innovative construction process of dynamic urban protection uniforms that can be transformed by the wearer. Visceral hand painting & stitiching psychosematically onto the fabrics like her canvases, she utilises zero waste japanses deconstructive pattern cutting and weaving technigues. By reappropiating fetish, military and medical asethetics, Kraftchenko draws links bewetnn control, submission, resistance and community. The inviitation to dynamic exploration of the interior-turn-exterior accentiuates the removed agency of models. The fashion shoe and dursational performances throughout the hours of the opening show aim to distort oppositions between fashioned bodies and manufactuyred industrial objects. Audience alike performersd willingly depersonalised as parts of collective cresation of post-industrial space dynamics. Restrained bodies of human dolls embody key codes of the brands motive of anonymity and isolation in urban environments. 

The invitation to dynamic exploration of the interior-turn-exterior accentuates the removed agency of the models. The fashion show and durational performances throughout the hours of the opening show aim to distort oppositions between fashioned bodies and manufactured industrial objects. Audience alike performers willingly depersonalised as parts of collective creation of post-industrial space dynamics. Restrained bodies of human dolls embody key codes of the brands motives of anonymity and isolation in urban environments. The exhibition will open durationally to the public following the live show on mannequins and run as an exhibtion open to the public from 29/11/24 - 29/12/24

The new collection is showcased through live-exhibition by the artist and reroutes the gaze via architectural intervention; installations and live choreography, sound, and moving images. 

The Body of Architecture '25 show was written and directed by Ingrid Kraftchenko & Piotr Bockowski. Full Cast to be released. After Party to be announced. 

Dollhouse was founded on the 1st December 2023 in London by Ingrid Kraftchenko. The show is sponsored in mannequins by Proportion London and in products by Blend, Trinny London, South Downs Water, Harlot Wines, Propercorn and Volkova.

Ingrid Kraftchenko opened 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 in a Victorian historic disused Factory in Glebe Road, Haggerston E8, which was built in 1890 and formerly a textile factory and spitfire maufacturing warehouse, which she has transformed into her post-industrial "Dollhouse." At Dollhouse: the norms of Thetare proscenium stages are under interrogation: as interscenium, with simultaneous hybrid spatial interventions. Dollhouse forms the DNA of the Kraftchenko's ideal couture body, as a fetishized doll, showing the artificality of gender as constructed by fashion, exploring ther mannequin as a site of resistance and disobendice. Embodying a cultural bodily unifform of dynamic and sustainableurban protection; Kraftchenko challenges the notions of functionality of deconstructive continous skins in architecture and fashion in industrial collapse. 

The performers  constantly exchange locations, physical states and sexual identities in a game of temptation and denial. The multimedia fashion show and architectural theatre works subverts the space of the stage via rotations and suspensions. 

Ingrid Kraftchenko - Dollhouse is a radical atelier spanning multi-disciplinary works operating between Architecture and Fashion Design, Film, the Visual and Performing Arts, often addressing issues of bodily enclosure and shelter at scales ranging 1:1 - 1:3000.