Upside down

Karine Kashukchyan

Sandals with a transparent top and a heel with a sole made of natural hair, 2022.

Part of the ‘Magical Realism’ collection, three pairs of shoes with conceptual orientation is a wearable art objects, where shoes as physical objects embody the materialistic world, immersed in the bizarre irrational world of fantasies and mysterious images. These sandals creates a silhouette where the shoes seems to dissolve due to the transparent materials. The hair growing on the sole of the foot symbolizes the head. The model visually conveys the metaphorical meaning by immersing it in a bizarre fantasy world.

© Karine Kashukchyan.


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