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Yohji Making Waves
Yohji Yamamoto (12 March – 21 August 2011)

Yohji Making Waves, 2011. Installation view in Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
Yohji Making Waves, 2011. Installation view in Wapping Hydraulic Power Station

Yohji Making Waves was an  installation featuring an oversized silk wedding dress with bamboo crinoline (A/W 1998) by the iconic Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, suspended within the flooded Boiler House of the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. Billy Cowie composed the soundtrack for the installation.

By popular demand, this was the longest running exhibition ever staged by The Wapping Project.

 

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1 Installation in progress, Boiler House, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, March 2011