Humanwear

Nacho Gamma

I am a melancholic creator with a baroque sense of life, who explores boundaries: between light and shadow, life and death, art and fashion.

Contact

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Degree Details

School of Design

Humanwear

I always believed that fashion can be a medium to express feelings, emotions or ideas. For me it is necessary to do it in a way which is visually artistic, but at the same time doesn't take away any rawness from life's realities.

That is why through my work, by means of art installation, performances, clothes or the creation of images, I am exploring a space between fashion and art. It is a no men’ s land, a place with no labels or rules, where the only expectation is to create no matter what.

But though my materials or techniques can change, I keep working around the same concepts, which are related to life, death and the passing of time. When I am talking about death, I am not talking about it in a biological way – I am talking about the death of ideals, of an object or even the death of a romance. I believe that it is important how we face a trauma or a wound. That it’s not only necessary to pass through it, it is a must to overcome it, to let this experience transform us into someone different and hopefully better, able to see an ending as a new beginning.

Framing the light — I though that I had been alone during the quarantine but at some point I discovered the company of the light which comes through my window. One day I tried to capture it and put it inside a box, but it kept moving and at the end it had gone, leaving me with its memory and the mark of time on the walls of my room.

Wound — This quarantine I have been completely alone, experimenting with my body, feelings and any other material I had in the house. One day I cut my mattress and created a hole with a human shape. After it, during the night, I stole some flowers from the park next to my house and I created a garden on my bed. It was a way for covering that memory which had been hurting me along my isolation.

Penitente — “Penitent” is a performance which appears during the experimentation process about how to express Melancholy though the garment, a felling that as humans we have the right to own, a sadness with no cause, a bitter happiness. In my case it is characterised by lack of confidence, self-criticism and fears about moving forward. My expectations about the future and my past shames nail me to the ground, with the hits my judgments stab on my body, I feel lost, I stopped loving me and that is why I punish myself. Photo by Javidel.

Penitente — “Penitent” is a performance which appears during the experimentation process about how to express Melancholy. In my case it is characterised by lack of confidence, self-criticism and fears about moving forward. My expectations about the future and my past shames nail me to the ground, with the hits my judgments stab on my body, I feel lost, I stopped loving me and that is why I punished myself. Photo taken by Irene Gomez Salazar during the making off of "Penitente".

Peineta — Reinterpretation of a traditional Peineta. Jewellery head piece designed in collaboration with Mairi Millar.

Self transformation — One day I was playing with the light in my room, I grab a red lipstick and I started to paint myself with it. I created a mask which helped me to discovering rather than covering me.

Daphne´s myth — I forgot to tell you before that when I was younger I use to spent my summer working in a flower shop. I kind of obsessed with flowers since then. (Digital collage).

Rebirth — Photo by Jorge Monedero

Baptism — Photo by Jorge Monedero

With this project I used the Fashion process to ‘think through’, as opposed to just ‘producing clothes’, harnessing the opportunities made available to me to gain self-knowledge and a stronger sense of certainty.