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Beyond Regalia

Beyond Regalia will showcase the fruits of the labors of retirees from the Malešice Home for the Elderly, Prague and artist Riitta Ikonen. The group will take to the streets of Prague to display their handmade regalia that prove that beauty, age, and creativity can be synonymous. This multidisciplinary visual art and performance program will feature bright colors, uncommon materials, and innovative fashions. Upright Regalia is a continuation of the Wearable Art Class, which started in 2013 as a collaboration between members of the Hamilton Madison House City Hall Senior Center in New York and a team of international artists comprising Riitta Ikonen (Finland), Alison Kuo (US), Yue Lin (China), Wei Xiaoguang (China), Karoline Hjorth (Norway), and Annie Collinge (UK). The project began with a meeting between costume maker and performer Riitta Ikonen and the blogger behind Accidental Chinese Hipsters, Alison Kuo, in which the two declared their intentions to make art with the dynamic and fashionable senior residents of Chinatown.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Riitta  Ikonen


Additional information: Originally from Finland, Riitta completed her BA at the University of Brighton and MA at the Royal College of Art, London. She works from both New York and Finland. Her work threads memory, myth, imagination and a romantic view of the natural world through a series of long-term projects pursued alone or with regular collaborators. Using performance and photographic portraiture to investigate the various ways humanity occupies and interprets the natural world.