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26/10/2001

Lucy Orta

USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa

Nexus Architecture and Connector IV

Lucy Orta has been researching the poetic nature of clothing and portable habitats for the past ten year. Her trasformable sculptures, Refuge Wear, Body Architecture and Modular Architecture, are higlhy original concepts for mobility, nomadism and networking.
She conceives an art in the form of creative enterprise touching on fashion, design and architecture and integrates many different participants into her design process. Much of her time is spent working with marginalized communities as a direct way of addressing the plight of the unemployed and homeless.
Orta's first solo show in the US includes her work with at-risk teenagers in workshop at Metropolitan Ministries, Tampa, as new architectural infrastructure for social space, commissioned by the USF CAM.

Lucy Orta (born Birmingham, England) has lived in Paris for the past 12 years where she worked as a designer in the garment and fashion industry. In 1992 Orta began to design multifunctional clothes that transform according to an individualÕs needs. Her designs are functional, providing assistance for urgent situations such as natural/social/ or political catastrophies. Her clothing, survival kits and modular dwelling, developed in collaboration with a community groups aound the world, function both practically and metaphorically to address the plight of such groups such as the homeless, at-risk teens and the unemployed.

Opening reception: Lucy Orta saturday, october 27, 8 - 10pm

USF Contemporary Art Museum 4202 E. Fowler Ave. CAM 101, Tampa, FL USA 33620
Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm, and Saturday 1 - 4pm

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