GAUDIUM — Anna Fenster

In a world full of threat

as wars, climate change

and economical crisis,

joy is coming and going,

unexpectedly appearing

and vaporising. But

we wait and hope for it

return. It always appears

unexpectedly and the

external circumstances

hypnotically stop to exist.

Such an uncontrolled

substance that makes us

continue to live or be a

rebel against fear and evil.

‘Jubilance seems like the

wrong note but maybe

it’s the only correct moral

response?’ (Rick Owens).

We feel joy as an obligation

pushing ourselves

to it in a bad times to

maintain our existence.

We fiddle while Rome

is burning and laughing

to protest.

At this time we wear what

we feel safe in, what

makes us feel ourselves.

Clothes protects us from

the environment physically

and psychologically. The

same effect we receive from

feeling better and happy

in a bad times. This

concepts makes a border

between body, personality

and external reality that

trying to disturb or damage

emotional and physical

balance.