LUOMO STRANO

Mic. Carter is a textile-based sculptor, whose primary interest is in exploring fashion’s relationship with post-human embodiment. In addition to design, he is also an accomplished educator, who uses art as a pedagogical moment for pushing the boundaries of how knowledge is produced or disseminated in everyday life. More specifically, Mic. believes that fashion-art is a tool of transcendence, one that has the ability to communicate, question and most interestingly, transgress beauty. This power of art to resist and redefine the tenets of aestheticism is what he finds most inspiring, particularly in fashion. Art movements/creators that actively seek to utilize these poetics of bafflement, disgust and shock are the ones that Mic. finds most attractive; the abject consistently challenges him to re-engage and push forward his understanding of art and desire (or lack thereof), especially in relation to the body. For Mic., the frame in which these creative investigations are set is heavily influenced by blackness, gender/queerness, and urban deterioration, the spaces in which he inhabits; his project themes, material and aesthetic choices reflect the Othered nature of these cultures.