"The negative space focuses on the emptiness that the human being attributes to the environment. Their previous presence is nothing more than a solid-colored silhouette in a positive void. A greater perception of its real form arises along with an understanding of the effects of its absence in the environment. The ability to observe for a second time emerges after only having glanced. It is the further insightfulness of the obvious reducer. The extension of the vacuum by the invisible contour of the palpable positive. It is the cut of absence that causes its existence."
Liliana Afonso (2016)
O NEGATIVO engages the particularities of the human presence in its environment and the importance that is made of it when it ceases to exist. Its aesthetic has an experimental and sensitive character that awakens a plurality of emotions and sensations associated to a tactile and visual experience, through manipulations carried out on the textile surface.
The elongated silhouette turns into something more loose, broad, covered by layers but with more space to explore. Notes from the works of Vhils and Mario Ceroli reinforce the language of the silhouette, through the tulle handmade embroidered with faces, and the overlapping layers of fabric over fleece with a soft plastic texture.
Arises the transformation of the textile surface, by adapting a traditional Japanese technique called Shibori, highlighting a set of protruding shapes, as if the fabric want to away itself, and communicate something before it leaves, thus revealing its presence.
This strong abstract component is accompanied by a palette of greenish and blue tones that blend with the gray tones and metallic purple, contrasting with the golden yellow embroidery and the white of the smooth fleece.
The classic oversized mixed with the feminine, and the possibility of giving smooth shapes by stronger fabrics, and otherwise, become essential to the visual expression of the collection, bringing a sophisticated, unique and contemporary language to it.
