STRIKE A POSE 2.0

June 24 – July 1, 2022
wildpalms, Düsseldorf
Karen Paulina Biswell × Société Angelique (Angelika Kammann)
Curated by Alexandra Meffert and Jorge Sanguino
Winner, Strike a Pose Festival 2022

Exhibition flyer for 'A Reflection on Vegetal World and Sexual Identity,' the title stacked in mixed serif, outline, and script typefaces on a white background.

Strike a Pose Festival is an initiative for fashion design and art in North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Düsseldorf. wildpalms’s installation for the festival won the Strike a Pose Award, built around Angelika Kammann’s designs for Société Angelique and Karen Paulina Biswell’s photography from the “Ellas” series.

Transparency and femininity run through the work; the plants carry the same charge, as material for the world we’re reflecting on. Get in touch if you’d like to acquire one of the sculptural pieces, one of Karen’s photographs, or the T-shirts.

Presenting the “Ellas” series in an installation curated by Alexandra Meffert and Jorge Sanguino, which won over the festival’s judges and experts in the region.

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Alexandra Meffert works at the intersection of fashion and visual art, translating between the two; together with Angelika Kammann, she brought the work of Colombian photographer Karen Paulina Biswell — until then unknown to Central European audiences — into the installation.

KAREN PAULINA BISWELL × SOCIÉTÉ ANGELIQUE

PRESS
wildpalms granted Strike a Pose Award. Art Nexus
Festival Strike A Pose in Düsseldorf: Monopol Magazin für Kunst & Leben
Willkommen in Utopia. Urbanana
Kooperativ abheben auf der Piazza
wildpalms gewinnt den Strike A Pose Award Fash

Exhibition Views

Installation view with a yellow sheer robe entwined in ivy hanging from a wall hook, a framed photograph of a tattooed thigh dressed with fresh flowers, two mirrored panels, and a yellow-and-white fabric piece hanging from the ceiling, lit in red.
A framed photograph of a tattooed thigh adorned with flowers on a white brick wall beside a translucent white and yellow garment on a stand, with dried flowering branches and ivy nearby.
A sheer sleeveless top printed with a close-up portrait of a face, suspended from the ceiling above a bundle of dried pink flowering branches, lit by a spotlight.
A framed photographic contact sheet of repeated close-up mouth images mounted on a hot pink gallery wall.
Installation view of three suspended garments: a yellow robe entwined with ivy, a sheer white robe with a printed photographic panel and ivy at its base, and a white T-shirt hanging amid trailing ivy on the wall.
A tall white fabric sculpture printed with photographic imagery, crowned with artificial flowers and spilling into a bed of white flowers and greenery on the floor, lit in blue.