As a forward shoe brand, YUME YUME knows a thing or two about experimentation. Demonstrating its dynamic vision, the Amsterdam-based company has teamed up with bio-tech company MycoWorks and the renowned Stedelijk Museum to present an innovative installation which revolves around sustainable mycelium leather, an innovative material, and as such, an endeavour, which aims to raise awareness among both consumers and companies around the urgency of directing the fashion industry towards sustainable alternatives. The journey so far is celebrated with an immersive, multi-sensory mycelium art installation, aptly entitled Descent into Fungal, which includes the planet’s first head-to-toe look made from Reishi™, the innovative leather alternative which has been developed by MycoWorks.
Held at Buro Stedelijk, an experimental space within Stedelijk Museum, the installation offers visitors a unique opportunity to watch mycelium grow in real time, creating an unprecedented experience that allows to observe and feel what it means to produce a fashion material from a growing natural substance. Embedded in the installation is an outfit designed by YUME YUME crafted from this material. Artist and designer Don Yaw Kwaning re-evaluates the properties of various vegetables and carefully transforms them into new materials. Visual artist Milena Anna Bouma creates a hyper-digitalised, artificial world in which the natural is reimagined as hyper-constructable. Last but not least, a two-channel video installation by artist Andrey Shental shows the perspective of the mushroom combined with a scientific method of thinking (on through Jan 25).
Buro Stedelijk
Museumplein 10 (Amsterdam Zuid)
1071DJ Amsterdam
Daily 10am-6pm
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