YUHEI UEDA

"Harvest" 2023
Since moving to Antwerp, I have come to appreciate the beauty of the farm horizon view from the train.
I became interested in life before the Industrial Revolution, when the relationship between nature and humans was close, and researched the lives of people at that time. In particular, I imagined their lives from the paintings of École de Barbizon and developed my designs from their works and clothings depicted.
The clothes seen in the paintings, such as chore coats, aprons, smocks, and shepherd's felt jackets, were reinterpreted in the line cutting of the time.
I also used natural fabrics and dyed and printed them in a way that did not involve digital printing.

"École de Barbizon" a school of painting that arose in France between 1830 and 1870. The artists lived and worked in and around the French village of Barbizon and painted realistic naturalistic landscapes and peasant paintings.