BLESS is a visionary substitute to make the near future worth living for. She has no nationality and thinks that sport is quite nice. She’s always attracted by temptations and loves change. She lives right now and her surroundings are charged by her presence. She tends to be future orientated.
The Paris and Berlin based duo BLESS (Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag) refuse to capitalise on any one milieu, and instead explore the differences between, and the mixing of, the systems of art, fashion, and design. They glide over the conventions of production, distribution and display to create things (to wear, to use, to look at, to smile at) for now and forever. Their collections are titled to reflect a current mood that may ostensibly last for many seasons to come, questioning consumerist behavioural patterns and proposing instead a ‘Present Perfect Continuous’.
In 2015 they came to Athens to inhabit the Radio Athènes headquarters at 15 Petraki Street and a private apartment on the first floor of the same building. They transformed these interior spaces into a BLESSHome to present their ideal and artistic values to the greek public for the first time.
Special guest: EXOTERIIKA
BLESS Fits every style !
The work of BLESS has been exhibited internationally including the 1st Berlin Biennial, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Manifesta 4, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, the Goethe-Institut, Tokyo, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam and the Istanbul Design Biennial.
OPENING: 1st November 2015,12:30 - 5pm
ON VIEW: 1st November - 20th December, 2015
Click here to see images of the project.
