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The Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin

Huang Po-Chih Huang Po-Chih's Production Line – Made in China & Made in Taiwan (2014–2020) pairs homogenous blue denim shirts with photographs of the young women who manufactured them in Taiwan, responding to the obsolescence of Taiwan's textile industry following outsourcing to Shenzhen. The work engages directly with deindustrialization and labor memory, including the artist's own mother. --- Chang Yuchen Chang Yuchen produces work under the moniker Use Value, beginning in 2016. The artist creates commodities—handmade garments and textile objects—priced according to the value of her time, which fluctuates as she moves through various labor markets including the service industry and academia. Her archival practice documents a decade of this labor-based exchange, presented as an incomplete retrospective alongside sculptural and collage works. --- Serena Chang Serena Chang creates totem-like sculptures and wall-based collages that repurpose hosiery manufactured by Sheerly Touch-Ya, a company her parents founded upon emigrating from Taiwan to the United States. Her sculptures mimic sugar cane stalk forms while her collages embed videos of manufacturing machinery within complex armatures, exploring memories of family assimilation and the material histories embedded in textiles. --- CFGNY CFGNY is an artist collective that transforms gallery spaces into shipping containers through cardboard construction. For this exhibition, the collective recently photographed young entrepreneurs and influencers in Ho Chi Minh City studios, capturing new visions for Vietnam's garment production infrastructure. Their practice engages the materiality of commodity distribution alongside contemporary fashion entrepreneurship. --- Shanzhai Lyric Shanzhai Lyric is a self-described "poetic research unit" comprising artist-archivists Ming Lin and Alex Tatarsky. Over a decade, they have accumulated hundreds of shanzhai T-shirts—Chinese-made counterfeits imitating global brands—from markets across Asian metropolises and New York City. Their archival research transforms the shirts' slogans, aphorisms, and mistranslations into a single poem, published by Pioneer Works Press.

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On View
Opens
Jan 24
Closes
Apr 12
Status
Closed
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The Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin examines Asian fashion production through installation, photography, sculpture, and archival work. Spanning Pioneer Works' second and third floors, the exhibition traces garment labor in Taiwan and America, featuring Huang Po-Chih's denim…

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