3rd hands clothes for(m) me.
second hand DAPP clothes, 5 stretcher frame
75cm high x 100cm wide x 4cm deep
Second hands clothes from DAPP (Development Aid from People to People), Lilongwe Malawi. Well-meant second hand clothing shipped to Africa, destroying local textile industries and local entrepreneurs. Mismanaged on site also had is part in this bankruptcy, but I guess that is stating the obvious.
The Western Fashion (clothing) industry sponsors this funny trade (and Western people supporting it): in the west they think it is donated, in Zambia and Malawi it is sold, a part of it by DAPP, turning it in a donation again. And hence the pollution of the fashion industry, all the water spillage (growing cotton, washing, dyeing, washing) and Co2 exhaust by the transport, child-labour in other 3rd wold countries to make it affordable in the West, so we can through (give) it away (and feel so good) to Africa (like our old pouting cars) and with all these second hands clothing Zambians and Malawian traditional clothing and / or clothing styles that would evolve with the lack of these (not so) old (not worn out (so not efficient and supporting the clothing industry) clothes.
As my thoughts where at the time of creating this work: this system let us all go to hell, I performed with these forms in nature, hilding them up in my white suit (clown / court jester / village fool, The White Western Man) and ending with smasing ashes around, ashes from pervious burned art works.