Opening today, the Brooklyn Museum’s latest exhibition, “Virgil Abloh: ‘Figures of Speech,’” is a culmination of sketches, designs and installations from the past two decades of the designer’s life
Photo: Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum Opening today, the Brooklyn Museum’s latest exhibition, “Virgil Abloh: ‘Figures of Speech,’” is a culmination of sketches, designs — including selections from Off-White, Louis Vuitton Men’s, and one-off creations — and installations from the past two decades of the designer’s life.
There was just such fluidity in his practice and the way that he lived his life — even in institutions like this, he was always trying to redesign. I was not a WhatsApp person before I met Virgil two and a half years ago; he communicated that way all the time. You can draw on WhatsApp, so he drew notes on things, or he’ll sketch things out. With this exhibition, to the last moment, he was like, “Let’s keep trying to shift it.
He was always playing and thinking about new ways of addressing the world. For him, he thought in a nonhierarchical way, and so he was not interested in this idea of low culture or high culture. He was more interested in an idea of How can everyone be in conversation? And how can we use objects to have people be in conversation?
Photo: Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum This is the first posthumous exhibition of Abloh’s work. What were the most important elements for you to highlight?
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