In 2017, I started taking paper from magazines to turn into clothes. I photographed it and called it “Samples Paris”.
Fashion made from the idea of fashion.
I wanted to make a fake archive, but it took so long it became real.
Amir Tikriti
Amir Tikriti moved to Paris a decade ago from the city of Los Angeles where he was born.
Starting with a simple desire to take photos, his not-so-simple approach resulted in a practice that straddles the definitions of assemblage, sculpture and photography. Choosing the same magazine page in repetition, he oils the paper, rips, staples, ties and molds his sculptures into form, sketches the models pose, oils the background, and then finally photographs these elements into an image.
The image then goes through another similar process to become its own original flatwork. This painstakingly detailed, compulsively obsessional process has a whimsical, almost outlandishly simple subject.
Amir Tikriti makes paper clothes, clothes made out of paper.