Tout est en ordre

Blending art and fashion, this exhibition explores one of the foundations of Swedish culture: a shared sense of order, restraint and neutrality, often referred to as “good taste”. The exhibition seeks neither to celebrate nor to reject it, but to subtly question it, to reveal how these norms shape bodies, behaviours and imaginations.

Starting from ordinary gestures – queuing, waiting one's turn, behaving properly – "Tout est en ordre" explores the tension between order and distortion, neutrality and identity, the ordinary and the absurd. The discreet order that permeates Swedish daily life is put to the test by slight dissonances: everything seems to want to be just right, but something resists, slips, escapes. Through a collection of silhouettes, sculptures, sounds and images, the exhibition stages familiar figures who never quite find their place. Recomposed mannequins, with unusual proportions and blurred identities, form queues with no clear destination. Clothes, from different generations of designers – both recognised and emerging – are assembled without apparent hierarchy. Here, the brand fades in favour of the relationships between the pieces. Art does not illustrate fashion: it disturbs it, blocks silhouettes, interrupts gazes, introduces friction. A field of echoes allows past and present to merge, the familiar to become strange. Fashion ceases to be considered as a product or a fixed image; it appears as a system in motion, fragile, dependent on context and perception. Archetypes merge and are reborn in another form, revealing a space where surrealism, humour and the strange meet the ordinary and the banal.

Fashion designers represented: Hodakova LLL Love is Shouty but Iconic Our Legacy Per Götesson

Artists and designers represented: Anton Alvarez Simon Skinner Anna Uddenberg Klara Zetterholm