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Kosmos in Blue
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2020
Artist: Yasmina Atta
Dimensions:
250 × 450 × 100 mm (25 × 45 × 10 cm)
Medium: Leather, Steel, Acrylic
Object number: FA.2020.113.CC
DescriptionHeadpiece by Yasmina Atta. Description by the designer:
is headpiece from my graduate collection was first inspired by a mask I saw at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. I continued to find similar reference images of people with wings near/ around their ears. My collection references mysticism and African Folklore and with this piece I was creating my own mystic character. I combined laser etched leather which print referenced tribal masks with technological aspects. The piece is motorised, and I use metal for the wings to give a more futurist influence in the design. Like my collection the piece aims to combine the mystical with technology and futuristic references.
My graduate collection focuses on hybridity and transformation. I researched post-colonial African cinema and began creating a character that was an amalgamation of ideas and cultural influences. The director Djibril Diop Mambéty was largely influential to the start of the project. I became focused on contrasts and shifts and I decided to focus on the mystical contrasting ‘the future’. My collection depicts a clash of tradition with pop culture visions of the future. I explore movement with motorised pieces that aesthetically combine traditional and modern techniques.
Drawing from Nollywood film and its depiction of the surreal. Nollywood represents the western influences next to very traditional beliefs such as African folklore. I was inspired by the way in which daily life becomes enchanting through these films. I approached the design aspect in a way in which I tried to mix and merge references and create something surreal. Laser etching is used to create tradition prints while wool is used as fabrication for the robot trousers. I looked a t references that maybe would not seem to relate at first glance. My prints were inspired by traditional Hausa Architecture and for the modern references I looked at Gundam robots in Japan.
This collection aims to pursue the surreal, with motorised aspects in design, reflecting inspiration of cinema and the moving image to the collection. Hybridity is presented in clashes of history with future, Western with African and the real and the surreal. Technology is usually seen as sterile and mechanical. However, in this collection there is an attempt to make it mystical. This collection is a chant to dreams of the future and memories of the past.
is headpiece from my graduate collection was first inspired by a mask I saw at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. I continued to find similar reference images of people with wings near/ around their ears. My collection references mysticism and African Folklore and with this piece I was creating my own mystic character. I combined laser etched leather which print referenced tribal masks with technological aspects. The piece is motorised, and I use metal for the wings to give a more futurist influence in the design. Like my collection the piece aims to combine the mystical with technology and futuristic references.
My graduate collection focuses on hybridity and transformation. I researched post-colonial African cinema and began creating a character that was an amalgamation of ideas and cultural influences. The director Djibril Diop Mambéty was largely influential to the start of the project. I became focused on contrasts and shifts and I decided to focus on the mystical contrasting ‘the future’. My collection depicts a clash of tradition with pop culture visions of the future. I explore movement with motorised pieces that aesthetically combine traditional and modern techniques.
Drawing from Nollywood film and its depiction of the surreal. Nollywood represents the western influences next to very traditional beliefs such as African folklore. I was inspired by the way in which daily life becomes enchanting through these films. I approached the design aspect in a way in which I tried to mix and merge references and create something surreal. Laser etching is used to create tradition prints while wool is used as fabrication for the robot trousers. I looked a t references that maybe would not seem to relate at first glance. My prints were inspired by traditional Hausa Architecture and for the modern references I looked at Gundam robots in Japan.
This collection aims to pursue the surreal, with motorised aspects in design, reflecting inspiration of cinema and the moving image to the collection. Hybridity is presented in clashes of history with future, Western with African and the real and the surreal. Technology is usually seen as sterile and mechanical. However, in this collection there is an attempt to make it mystical. This collection is a chant to dreams of the future and memories of the past.