Copypaste by Catta Donkersloot and Lisa Kortenhorst

Fashion designer Catta Donkersloot and photographer Lisa Kortenhorst worked together on, again, a unique exhibition. They’ve already showed their clothing and photo’s, inspired by several books, in hotel rooms that were all furnished in a specific theme and they made a show where they switched the role between models and guests which made the guests on the catwalk the ones that were being stared at. At this exhibition, that is showed till july 18 at Damrak 70, the twosome emailed each other without saying one word. Kortenhorst would send an photo or image to Donkersloot, who responded with an outfit, from there on Kortenhorst goes along with a photo that is based on the outfit and so on and so on.

This question-answer concept forced them to create new images in a certain amount of time. It began with a photo by Kortenhorst, who is located in Berlin, she took a picture of the Jewish memorial and edited it into an image of abstract black and white shapes. The exhibition is located in an old office building and set in -as it looks like- an old direction room. Through a window you can see the correspondence between the tho artists in a chamber below. Behind the dresses the images of the email-session are showed.

Fascinating how working with so many restrictions, leads to new point of views with interesting results and ultimately to an excellent collaboration. Kortenhorst confirms that that is the reason why they ‘would do anything to get round the ordinary catwalkshow’. The second half of Copypaste will be showed at Berlin Fashion Week in January 2011.

Photos by Chelsea Syrett

Written by Karin Aalberts