The exhibition Ying Gao:art,Fashion and Technology presents a dozen pieces that include three series of"intelligent"garments which move and change in response to noise,sound,motion or light.These garments represent state-of-the-art research on textiles with integrated technologies but still have an amazingly poetic dimension.They draw the viewer's eye,inflating,unfolding,transforming while protecting the virtual body they cover.
For Gao,apparel art serves as a means to investigate the various ways people relate to their environment as well as contemporary complex social and technological issues.
Ying Gao is a fashion designer and professor of design at UQAM.She is also the recipient of the 2009 Phyllis-Lambert Design Montreal Grant,awarded annually by Ville de Montreal.
