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Every non contradictory, non-paradoxical understanding of the nature of divinity is hopelessly far from the divine secret of life.*

Fashion, formal abstraction, performance, and exhibition: Fair by The Fashion of Christ targets the contradictions seen in ‘contemporary’ modes of creative production, insisting on a personal initiative for vocabulary as opposed to a fashionable one. Fairly resolved but fully committed, this project puts on display two in-dividualized vocabularies that collaborate, con-tradict, fuse and reject all with equal amount of push and pull. Fair by The Fashion of Christ is a collaborative project between Mitchel Thar and Iva Supic Jankovic. The collaboration started in Novem-ber 2013 during Thar’s exhibition Fair in The Zolder Museum (museum in Amsterdam ran by Iva Supic Jankovic from 2012-2014).

The opening of Fair by The Fashion of Christ will be marked with a poem, written for the Let Goooooo Project; drumming will follow the song. * Berdyaev Nikolai Aleksandrovich, Philosophy of the Free Spirit

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content text | invitation [ p. 3 ]

work 1 | performance | p. 5 - p. 11

text | staring point artist talk | p. 12 - p. 13

work 2 | exhibition | p. 14

colophon | p. 19

see also ZOLDERMUSEUM

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Fair by The Fashion Of Christ Starting point artist talk

Exhibition, performance, and a stage for dis-cussion: Fair by the Fashion of Christ was the second installment of a collaboration be-tween Iva Supic Jankovic and Mitchell Thar. The first project, the show Fair by Thar, took place at The Zolder Museum (a museum ran by Jankovic from 2012-2014). In this project, both artists began to collaborate with their respective vocabularies through working together on the production of an exhibition. The Fashion of Christ, a clothing brand by Jankovic and subsequent project to The Zol-der Museum, acted as the foundation for this exhibition. Both Jankovic and Thar are invested in the visualization of ‘label’ and what this translates to in different contexts, be that artistically and socially, in various

productions and concepts. In this show, two ‘labels’ were presented as a point of con-versation about the function of vocabulary as personally based while also engaging with pre-existing frameworks (fashion and formal abstraction, namely). Perhaps most representative of this process was the ‘goody-bag’ that was installed in the show, a custom silk-screened bag containing work(s) in editions that were also present in the exhibition. The show as a whole was bagged and labeled, but on the terms of the artists and their material. Adjacent to the bags was a performance where an original poem was recited to the background of drumming. In the poem, the specific occasion of ‘Let Goooo’ and the position of

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the artists were addressed while perfor-ming the various brands present in the in-stallation. Like the title of the show implies, this exhibition was only fairly resolved and intentionally so; Fair by the Fashion of Christ was a proposal to utilize label as an open structure, a strategy of intentional self-identification. Mitchell Thar

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THE CHEERFUL SHAREHOLDERS & FRIENDS OF CAESUUR

is supported by

de Kattendijke/Drucker

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colophon teamCAESUUR 2014-2015 Willy van Houtum | Giel Louws Michiel Paalvast | Harmen Eijzenga Hans Overvliet curator LET GOOOOO . . . . .

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catalogue work: ©Mitchell Tharu.s.a.& Iva Supic Jankoviccroatia

photos: © Mitchell Thar & Hans Overvliet logo: ©Niek Hendrix lay-out: Hans Overvliet

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