NOMOS—in search of home through wearable everyday objects
Andreea Badea & Adrian Petcu
Taking the shape of an interdisciplinary editorial that resulted from the collaboration between visual artist Andreea Badea and designer Adrian Petcu, the project re-imagines the unfixed identity of the nomad who flows freely in the inbetween. The word nomad is derived from the Greek word for pasture, namely nomos (νόμος), which in Greek mythology also used to embody the daemon of laws. The contemporary nomad, however, does not represent order, but rather the opposite of it: an entity that exists outside of order, one that deviates from society’s rules of dwelling, and adapts to the surroundings by making them their own. The modern nomad is the organism that wanders in marginal existential circumstances, always in pursuit of new intimate spaces, but never fully settling anywhere. Always roaming, always searching, never finding.
Outfit 1
Vest: bath towels
Shirt and trousers: bed sheets
This search for a lost home is rendered alive by Badea and Petcu through the uncanny familiarity of the clothes worn by the nomad. The outfits are made out of appropriated everyday materials: in this regard, bath towels, bed sheets, curtains, blankets, vinyl tablecloths are transformed into garments that not only adorn the nomad’s body, but also serve as ambulatory remnants of a lost home.
Outfit 2
Trousers: drapery
As the nomad is unable to fully adapt to mainstream society, he continues to roam in permanent self-imposed exile, longing for a made-up idea of home. The nomad is therefore closely related to the pensive term coined by Hungarian philosopher György Lukács, transcendental homelessness, which implies the longing for a place in which the human being once belonged. As the purpose of the modern soul is to reclaim the lost site of existence that most of us call home, we also long for utopian perfection—what Lukács himself calls “a nostalgia that feels itself and its desires to be the only true reality.”1
1 György Lukács, The Art of the Novel (London: Merlin Press, 1988), 70.
Outfit 3
Overcoat: vinyl tablecloth
Trousers and t-shirt: curtains
Outfit 4
Jumper and skirt: blankets
Andreea Badea is a Bucharest-based photographer and set designer. A graduate of the Photography and Time-Based Art programme at the National University of Arts (Bucharest), Andreea also studied in Leipzig at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst. Andreea’s artistic practice relies on video art and photography and revolves around the rituals of the everyday and re-imagined ecologies. Keep up with Andreea’s work here, her Nocturn project can be found here.
Adrian Petcu is a Bucharest-based fashion designer. He finished his studies in the field of marketing, but now Adrian is creating his own clothing brand. His collections plan to examine the notion of deconstruction and move towards what is called a conceptual idea. Keep up with Adrian’s work here.
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