Poddelka Nude — Florian

— The invitation said simply: “Florian Poddelka. Come as you aren’t.” And the crowd that spilled into the cavernous, raw-concrete space of the old Umspannwerk transformer station on Tuesday night did exactly that.

The final gallery is empty except for a single, rotating pedestal. On it stands a mannequin dressed in a dress that appears to be made of frozen, crystallized breath—a bioplastic Poddelka developed with a university lab, which is fogged from within by a cooling element. It’s ephemeral. In an hour, the fog will fade. By tomorrow, the dress will be a different shape. Florian Poddelka Nude

And fight they do. The exhibition is arranged in five “chapters,” each a radical reinterpretation of a wardrobe staple. — The invitation said simply: “Florian Poddelka