Women’s History Museum at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

Designers Amanda McGowan and Mattie Rivkah Barringer, who create garments under the name Women’s History Museum, explore a barely-there aesthetic partly inspired by their experience of tiny, ‘almost unintelligible’ Instagram images of clothing.  Though this outfit looks like it may be worn by a fashion-conscious desert island cast-away, the mannequin’s position before a faux-cottage suggests a whimsical escapee from a fairy-tale.  (On view at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on the Lower East Side through February 25th).

Installation view of ‘Women’s History Museum’ (Amanda McGowan and Mattie Rivkah Barringer) at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Feb 2018.