Nadir Tejani and the Visibility Series
Overexposed. Overobserved. Oversee to be overseen. That’s all about visual voyeurism, fashion, showbiz… life. Isn’t it? That’s why Nadir Tejani decided to carry on a project called “The Visibility Series”: developing from a quest against the invasion of physical and intellectual privacy observed in contemporary societies, Nadir Tejani’s Visibility Series disregards conventions and focuses on the design of anonymous garments.
The collection documents a series of experimentations with light beams and reflections as a deliberate answer against urban surveillance, simplifying geometric shapes that are then associated with a human body. The products are designed sideways so that when laid flat do not resemble conventional garments; like reflected light, they bounce back at the body when worn through their cut and functional elements such as belts and drawstrings. Nadir Tejani goes further in draining any trace of personality off the clothes by eliminating their visible features and details and working with a black, monochromatic palette, relying on the purity of oversized form to offer privacy to its wearer.
As he says: VISIBILITY SERIES is a presentation where the interactions between public and private domains are reversed; the layering of data in favour of the object rather than the spectator; a rejection of violation of privacy; a promotion of counter-intelligence and self-vigilance; a metaphor for the human as light; the ever-presence as a method of disguise; the positioning in social spaces; an opportunity to be visible, yet remain unidentifiable.
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