Ingrid KRAFTCHENKO The Body of Architecture '24 / 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 (The Theatre of the Domestic) '24

This is an invitation to INGRID KRAFTCHENKO'S 'The Body of Architecture' 24 for London Fashion Week at  𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 Kraftchenko Atelier (The Theatre of the Domestic)  

Please note this inaugural showcase at the new date for London Fashion Week opening LFW40 to be released shortly. 

Dalston, London E8. Full address will be sent to ticket holders only for the public exhibiton after the London Fashion Week Press show. 

She questions who is safe and who is disposable by re-understanding the 'Body as Architecture' and the current capitalist supply and demand and priority for protective, utlitarian clothing and bespoke bondage weapon accesorries fusing a delicate use of resilient fabrics. The Body of Architecture '24  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 store. The live-exhibition by the artist reroutes the gaze via architectural intervention; installations and live choreography, sound, and moving images. 

The invitation to dynamic exploration of the interior-turn-exterior accentuates the removed agancy of the models. The durational performances throughout the 2 hours of the exhibition aim to distort oppositions between fashioned bodies and manufactured industrial objects. Audience alike performers willingly depersonalised as parts of collecive 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. 

Kraftchenko'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 technical materials that become involved in innovative construction process of dynamic urban protection uniforms, utilising zero waste deconstructive pattern cutting. By re-appropiating fetish, military and medical aesthetics, Kraftchenko draws links between control, submission, resistance and community. 

While the domestic space of Kraftchenko Atelier opens up as an arena to discuss politics of shelter and dwelling, at the same time it calls for initiative in spatial surgery and architectural interrogation. At Kraftchenko Atelier, the post-runway show encourages adaptation strategies for existential runways from control agents within megacities. She viscerally hand-paints psychosomatic urban guerrilla tactics on the political canvas of fabrics.
Ingrid Kraftchenko is a radical collaborative 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. IK X