Calabi–Yau
In Paris in 1936, the poet Charles Sirato founded a new art movement called Dimensionalism. It was launched in an aesthetic manifesto signed by several important artists of the time, including Hans Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Sonia and Robert Delaunay.
Fascination for physics’ expanded understanding of existence and the belief that art can make us experience extended dimensions is the central theme of Bahareh Ardakani‘s new collection for ArdAzAei.
She is particularly interested in String Theory, which suggests that the smallest particles of the universe are one-dimensional vibrating strings, and in a mathematical visualization called Calabi–Yau spaces. These spaces are a representation of how the universe can accommodate infinitely more dimensions than three, in that these dimensions are imagined to be hidden in holes, coiled or infinitely small.
The Calabi–Yau idea of concealed dimensions is expressed in this collection in a sophisticated play with the possibilities of different materials to be shaped, folded, rolled or draped. At its core is a series of remarkable dresses where cuts, pleats and drapes create pieces that burst the three-dimensional static space and open to a dramatic multidimensionality.
