Dépaysement non-lieu

DESIGNER

Dépaysement non-lieu

SANGUE NOVO
SUPPORTED BY SEASIDE

Kaique Felix was born in São Paulo and is currently based in Porto. A Fashion Design graduate from ESAD, he created the project dépaysement non-lieu as a critical response to structures that define who is allowed to create or belong. His practice is rooted on improvisation as method, using donated materials, reuse, and ready-made appropriation to explore decolonial themes, displacement, and symbolic disruption. He creates from the margins, where rules do not apply.

CONTACTS

E-mail: kaique@depaysement.nl

The “Programme de redistribution de la richesse pour les immigrants non-européens” collection by dépaysement non-lieu is the first iteration of an ongoing programme investigating symbolic, economic and cultural redistribution.
Inspired by migration narratives and a critique of Eurocentrism, the collection is structured in three tactical moments: entry, exploration and declaration. Through manual techniques and reclaimed materials, each piece acts as a device for critiquing the colonial system that continues to privilege certain bodies. Here, aesthetics is not a solution nor an ornament; it is a political provocation.