'Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech,' at the Brooklyn Museum unravels like a walk through the late artist's creative process, with videos of runway shows, racks of unreleased prototypes from his fashion lines and an installation called the 'Social Sculpture.'
, the show’s curator, ”and making sure that young people in particular had the keys that they needed to succeed in creative fields where they had previously not been welcomed, because that's his story.”Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
“We had a really great conversation about creativity and about ideas, and I was like, I'd absolutely love to do this,” Sargent said. “And he said he wanted the show to change completely from the previous iterations. And I was like, absolutely!” While some of these pieces have been seen in other iterations of the exhibition, the Brooklyn show includes the added installation called “Social Sculpture,” a large house made out of wood that’s meant to represent the idea of holding space for Black artists and designers. The museum will host“He really wanted to make sure that folks understood that his journey as an artist really starts with architecture and engineering,” Sargent said.
The "Social Sculpture" portion of the Brooklyn Museum exhibition provides a space for event programming guided by Virgil Abloh's art and interests.The "Social Sculpture" portion of the Brooklyn Museum exhibition provides a space for event programming guided by Virgil Abloh's art and interests.Abloh’s unorthodox rise to mainstream prominence began in Rockford, Illinois, in 1980.
“I think being in spaces, these cultural spaces, and just being in these rooms with so many different creatives, I think people just took notice and you had no choice but to take notice,” Boyd-Griffith said. “Eventually Louis Vuitton was like, ‘Yeah, we need you!’” “We went to the Louis Vuitton store, and I jokingly asked the employee as we’re looking around, ‘Where’s Virgil?’” Walk said. “And she goes, ‘He's actually like right outside – good luck!’”
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