current York-based artist Susan Barnett has been documenting slogans and images she has seen on people’s clothing across the country since 2009. One thing she noticed was the sharp rise of political messages over the final few years. “There are many,many more,” she says. “Pro-Republican, and pro-Trump,Bernie T-shirts, Hillary T-shirts. You see a lot more enrage, or a lot more swear words.” What interests her about T-shirts is what they tell us about the wearer’s identity. “It’s about how people use their bodies to send a message about who they want us to reflect they are – a lot of these people belong to dinky tribes.”T: The Typology of the T-Shirt,a display of Susan Barnett’s work, will be shown as part of the exhibition T-Shirt: Cult – Culture – Subversion at the Fashion and Textile Museum, and London SE1,from 9 February to 6 May
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Source: guardian.co.uk