You are warmly invited to the opening of Garbage Girl by Dana Stoll.

Garbage Girl is a vibrant exhibition that turns trash into wearable art. Working outside the fast-fashion cycle, Stoll creates playful and sometimes absurd garments from second-hand fabrics, donated materials, and unexpected items like bubble wrap, and fruit netting. Through humour and creativity, Garbage Girl challenges audiences to rethink waste and imagine the possibilities of reuse.

Stoll's slow stitching textile practice sits in contrast to fast fashion and the cycle of overconsumption and disposal. By collecting second-hand materials and trash, Stoll playfully fuses clothing to waste, highlighting the possibilities of creative re-use. Some pieces take months to create; the slowness is the point. A lost value, revivied with every mark she makes.

This exhibition features striking photographs of Stoll wearing her creations in Western Australia’s pristine natural landscapes, alongside the garments themselves displayed on mannequins, establishing an imagined dialogue with landscapes of textile trash abroad created through waste colonialism.

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