Holly Mills-Živanović

Fashion (MA)

Bronze casts of ceremonial wax drops.

Veiled in Mourning Lace, the body adorned with relics of ceremony. Transient tokens become bronze casts that hang from the body. Wax casts form to the shape of the wrist.

New skin for the old ceremony- RCA Expo 24. Shrouded in Victorian Mourning Veils, she sits at the Altar. The Mirror reflects the self surrounded by 478 beeswax candles made from glass collected from rivers and woodlands, beech and oak bark from burial ground of ancestors, bronze casts of hair locks and ceremonial wax relics.

Fitting images and ceremonial candles, the practice as a ritual.

About

Holly Mills-Živanović is a Womenswear designer from London, prior to studying at The RCA she spent 7 years working in industry. Her practice takes the form of ritualistic processes, relics emerge in different material forms. Each artefact of these rituals is a inimitable, a materialisation of the transience of ceremony. These work directly with the form, adapting with and reflecting the physicality of the body. The altering sensory profiles that emerge become a new landscape for both the ritual and the self.

An object, subject, an artefact of memory

A strand of hair

A drop of wax

The presence of being

The absence caught, immortal

The dissipation of the self, the impermanence.

The objects, the transient tokens of ceremony. Immured into relics of presence.

The body; a curated vessel of these artefacts. Conscious amongst them. Existing in a new form of ritual.

The body is the absence of space, the impermanent signal.

The self possessed and lost in the object; invites a stillness amongst the noise.

The vital materiality of humanity effervescent; traces of ritual dissipate the density of matter.

A reset, an echo.

A new skin for the old ceremony.

Supported by the Max Mara Scholarship.

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