"Arie Urrutic is a sustainable punk fashion designer based in New York. She studied fashion in Florence, Italy, for some time before moving to the city to pursue her career. Her practice blurs costume, set design, and sculpture, often working with recycled materials and handmade textures. She's styled for musicians and worked on films and music videos, but this series feels especially personal."
"The concept behind this photo series began as a kind of dream. Arie has aphantasia, which means she cannot form images in her mind when she thinks. Her imagination is a blank screen. Her dreams, in contrast, are cinematic and vivid, incredibly immersive, and strange enough to feel real. She often wakes up convinced she has lived them. So, in a way, this project is about translating that dream logic into tangible form."
"She imagined a version of herself living in the 1950s, a housewife bound to a manicured home, her world defined by pastel appliances and expectations. She wondered, what would she dream of? What escapes would her subconscious build when her waking world was so confined? Maybe she'd dream herself as a goddess, or a doll that breaks free from her dollhouse, or an alien girl far from Earth."
Arie Urrutic is a sustainable punk fashion designer based in New York who studied fashion in Florence before relocating to New York. Her practice blurs costume, set design, and sculpture, utilizing recycled materials and handmade textures. The series comprises four staged scenes: Birth of Venus, The Dollhouse, and two Alien girl fantasies. The project originates from her aphantasia, which prevents mental imagery while producing vivid, cinematic dreams. The work translates dream logic into tangible environments. The scenes imagine constrained 1950s domesticity and the subconscious rebellions it might produce, portraying fantasies of goddesshood, doll liberation, and extraterrestrial escape.
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