Tamar Levit & Yaën S. Levi

Tamar Levit and Yaën S. Levi work their way around the seam lines of fashion, design research, and performance art to speculate on how personal, social and political systems manifest themselves through clothing.

They move through the histories and appearances of wearables — clothing, dress codes, uniforms — items not authored by a single designer or protected by a patent, but shaped through the slow evolution and restless mutations of society at large. In this landscape, they relearn methodologies from the often overlooked practice of wearing: the daily choreography of dressing, undressing, seeing and imagining dressed bodies.

The history and current flow of what people wear emerge from social protocols, moral expectations, and economic pressures — grounded in sensorial genealogy and collective phantasmagoria. Levit and Levi gather these via site visits, interviews, academic research, somatic and sartorial scores.

From these threads, they construct poetic–spatial–ritualistic (sometimes wearable) formats, allowing the accumulated histories to assume structure, volume, and the counter space around one’s body.