RETRO / FUTURE

28 SEPTEMBER – 27 NOVEMBER 2011

Integrated into the sixth edition of the Experimenta Design biennial, the RETRO / FUTURE installation, curated by Eduarda Abbondanza and Francisco Rocha, used the collection of posters, invitations, and other communication objects gathered over 20 years of ModaLisboa | Lisbon Fashion Week, and reconstructed them according to a logic similar to the functioning of human memory. The exhibition was on display at the Antigo Tribunal da Boa Hora, in Lisbon.

Far from constituting a systematization of graphic design work or a retrospective of its creators, RETRO / FUTURE sought to reproduce the porous path of memory, focusing on the referential value of each of these objects and evoking the spaces, times, and techniques that gave rise to them. Once their communicative function had been fulfilled, these materials reveal themselves as testimonies of a parallel path between Fashion and Design, allowing a broad reading of how both construct and project images.