Marimekko to auction three unique artworks for International Women’s Week
Marimekko Art of Nature
– For the cause of women’s rights
In celebration of International Women’s Week 2022, Finnish design house Marimekko has collaborated with three prominent visual artists from around the globe: Cassi Namoda, Camilla Engström and Yoyo Nasty. For this special collaboration, Marimekko commissioned each artist to create a unique art piece to be auctioned during International Women’s Week in March 2022. Each sold artwork will be sewn into a custom-made archetype Marimekko A-line dress according to the buyer’s measurements, making the items true forms of wearable art. Profits from the auction will be donated to Gurls Talk – a community-led non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women.
Since 1951, Marimekko has become known for creating great art on fabrics that have graced the brands’ products from homeware to dresses – the first Marimekko products ever made. The archetypical Marimekko dress was designed around the idea that women should be able to run wearing a dress, conveying the female-empowering spirit and progressive attitude of Marimekko’s founder Armi Ratia.
For this special project, the artists were invited to create their artworks in Marimekko’s Helsinki textile printing factory, which is a bustling, free-spirited playground of creativity and joy. Marimekko’s history revolves around the art of printmaking, and each year, around one million meters of fabric continues to be printed in the facility. To date, the brands’ ambitious, ever-growing print collection contains over 3,500 designs.
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About Cassi Namoda
Cassi Namoda is New York-based Mozambican painter. Since her debut in 2017, Namoda quickly gained traction amongst collectors. She has since exhibited at galleries in Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, and Johannesburg. Cassi’s dreamlike figurative portraits explore the intricacies and intimacies of everyday life under the specter of post-colonialism: Her figures cry, embrace, wade into deep waters, and embark on winding paths. Capturing scenes of everyday life, from mundane moments to life-changing events, Namoda paints a vibrant and nuanced portrait of post-colonial Mozambique within an increasingly globalized world.“I thought about the wearer who will end up wearing the piece: A woman always about town but also a woman who is relaxed and rested.”
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I thought about the wearer who will end up wearing the piece: A woman always about town but also a woman who is relaxed and rested
About Camilla Engström
Camilla Engström is a Los Angeles-based artist of Swedish and Chinese heritage. The self-taught painter creates vibrant, sorbet-coloured landscapes and creates paeans to ecological female empowerment and rebels against female beauty standards. Engström has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Hong Kong. “I'm very grateful for the brave women who came before me. Who did so much work for me to be able to do this for a living. Step one is to know our own worth, take space and ask for what we want. I hope I can inspire young women to do the same.”
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I'm very grateful for the brave women who came before me. Who did so much work for me to be able to do this for a living. Step one is to know our own worth, take space and ask for what we want. I hope I can inspire young women to do the same
About Yoyo Nasty
Yoyo Nasty is a Stockholm-based Swedish painter with imaginative artworks that depict recurring motifs, such as happy characters, plants, animals, and wild nature in vibrant color palettes. Yoyo uses humor and playfulness in her artworks and is inspired by the way cartoons convey visual stories and emotion, Yoyo creates a world of her own through her intuition led practice. Her first solo show took place in 2021 at Vida museum & Konsthall. “I enjoy exploring queer expressions and identity through feminine attributes like the pink thong, nail polish and high heels. I’m trying to express emotions and personality that hopefully evoke the viewers own imagination and new perspectives. Most of all I want it to be fun.”
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I enjoy exploring queer expressions and identity through feminine attributes like the pink thong, nail polish and high heels. I’m trying to express emotions and personality that hopefully evoke the viewers own imagination and new perspectives. Most of all I want it to be fun
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