"The space around a garment is just as important as the piece of clothing itself."

For almost 20 years mash-ups of space and clothing popped up in my head, resulting in hundreds of sketches. Like a diary, I have always hidden them. For Dutch Design Week I 'virtualised' 10 of these. As an exploration to my personal and social motives, and a shout out to you. Waiting for a collaboration with musea, musicians, dancers, choreographers, galleries, architects, collectors, or film makers to be brought to life.

Playing with perception is an important theme in Peters’ work. He investigates this by means of textile sculptures, optical illusions and site-responsive clothing which extends outside the body, literally blending with the space.

Clothing – everyday items and the ultimate universal visual language — is warped, stretched, repeated, cropped and reconfigured in many ways, surprising the spectator with it’s new vocabulary. Disrupting the traditional relationship between spectator and object, with the goal to cause a delay, imbalance and change of perspective.

Counterbalancing consumerism and adding awareness, an emotional re-valuation of the (too many) clothes already out there, while questioning personal space, idealism, beauty, virtuality, social mobility, impatience, prejudice and intimacy.

Made possible by Creative Industries Fund NL.