ENA_MACANA

"China, many meanings…" This collection plays with the collective imaginary that sorrounds the word “China”. Forced by the disparate discourses that we listened, read, and finally shape our beliefs. From a selection of toys “made in China” are re-made and transformed into fashion accessories. Some pieces are simple compositions with familiar icons: planes, pigs, butterflies, military guns or high heels, that can evoke a dual meaning. Other pieces have more complex compositions, the arrangement and repetition of each icon like the military guns cross that give us a new reading, generating new icons, a cross, from the primary one, a military gun. The process of composition can evoke connotations as complex as absurd, In the same way that the discourses sourrounding the word “China” does.