ABOUT A WORKER x TIMES ART CENTER BERLIN
MASKS BY TAILOR LÊ
During the confinement period, ABOUT A WORKER was asked by Times Art Center Berlin to co-create masks with local shop owners/workers in order to help them gain recognition in the current doubtful economic time. It was the first time we were asked to collaborate creatively and distantly with workers.
We had to come up with an easy system which could give any shop owners in Berlin the possibility to showcase their business identity, expression and talent.
For our first mask series with Times Art Center Berlin, we have collaborated with Tailor Lê. As you will see, each masks are made and designed with Tailor Lê’s fabric leftovers. Each masks embodies its store history!
‘Masks by Tailor Lê” highlights the importance of the German-Vietnamese immigrant community to Berlin’s social fabric – a high percentage of which are self-employed and business owners.
“COVID-19 keeps exposing the weaknesses of our globalised system. In a time, when our material needs are debatable, our global population should take this opportunity to meet and value the people willing to continue working for their territory(ies) and surrounding(s).’’ Kim Hou
for more infos on the collab: check this link !
ABOUT TAILOR LÊ
“I am not worried about the future. People always need tailoring.” Tailor Lê
Tailor Lê, originally from Vietnam, has arrived in Berlin in the last year of the GBR in 1988. Originally trained as an engineer in Vietnam, he has owned a restaurant and worked in the food sector and wholesale markets in Berlin for many years, before opening his successful tailor shop on Danziger Strasse six years ago. He learned the craft of tailoring early on in his life, as his mother was a seamstress.
Lê’s Workshop
Lee Änderungsschneiderei
Danziger Str. 15
10435 Berlin
ABOUT TIMES ART CENTER BERLIN
Founded by the Guangdong Times Museum in 2018, Times Art Center Berlin is the first parallel institution set up overseas by an Asian art museum. It operates as an autonomous nonprofit organization and dedicates itself to developing new models of a contemporary art institution, through exhibitions, productions, public programs, and collaborative projects. Located in Mitte, Times Art Center Berlin embraces diversity, multiculturalism and connectivity, with a special focus on underrepresented artists and art practices from Asia. It aims to provide a platform for a wide range of contemporary art practices and discourses, and encourages transnational initiatives beyond the “East-West” dichotomy. In doing so, Times Art Center Berlin strives to contribute to the diversity of Berlin’s art-world ecosystem.
