Now it becomes a reality - the exhibition we have developed from The Erotic Cloth: Fabric: touch and identity is being installed in February, 6 years after Alice and I first started on this jouney. On February 24th Kazuhiro Ueno from NUNO arrived in order to install Reiko Sudo's incredible installation of 300 large indigo fans and on 27th Reiko herself arrived to oversee it. Everyone worked so hard and by the time she left on 28th the installation was almost complete, Kazuhiro staying on for the final stages. It is breath taking. I can't wait for the public response.
I returned on March 9th to complete the install. Maxine Bristow came to install her work herself, and as always it is a joy to work with such a professional - one of those working relationships built over 18(!) years Alice installed her beautiful Adam and Eve - the rest we did together. Such interesting correspondences have emerged, particularly the relationship between Nigel Hurlstone's 'What Pleasure' and Vivienne Westwood's Red Suit, also Bob White's 'Between cloth and Skin' and Annie Bacoul's 'Vivre et rêver... en dentelle'. And as for Rūta Naujalytė's wallpaper 'My love I will eat you alive' at the entrance to the exhibition - couldn't want anything better!
But over everything hangs the Corvid 19 worry and what will happen. I so hope we can have the Opening on March 12th! So much hard work has gone into this exhibition...