Inside Ilan Pozeilov's First Solo Show, Casa Cobre

On the evening of Thursday 24 September, Ilan Pozeilov presented his first solo show, Casa Cobre, following the collection he showed at Central Saint Martins in June.

Casa Cobre is a fictional archaeological site in Alta California, where generations of one family were buried with their garments, tools and ceremonial objects. Pozeilov imagines its discovery. The collection is what comes out of the ground: fragments of those lives rebuilt through weaving and tailoring, in copper, wool, silk, mohair, horsehair and human hair.

The starting point was photographs his father took in his twenties travelling through Mexico. Pozeilov grew up in California, and the show works through what that inheritance looks like second-hand: what gets kept, what gets lost, and what a garment can hold once the person who wore it is gone.

Rather than a finished collection shown on its own, Casa Cobre builds an environment. Preservation becomes a way of telling a story, and making becomes a way of keeping one.

Sarah Gresty, course leader of BA Fashion at Central Saint Martins, was among those in attendance.