This project thematically leans to the plague of modern era-HIV, a controversial virus that, like syphilis and similar sexually transmitted diseases, became the symbol of debauchery and decadence on one side, and openness and readiness for research and intelligence on the other side.
Just like incurable tuberculosis which was seen as an almost 'fashionable illness' of intellectuals and bohemians in the past, HIV(which is not always visible, and possibly lethal) can be viewed the same way today amongst people with alternative sexual orientations.
This concept was used by Silvio Vujičić, gathering his interest for what is "in" one one and for dressing on the other side. In the project "Exposed to Virus and Fashion" he treats controversial issues of HIV to his own analytical, witty way.
The artist decided to illustrate the influence of the HIV virus in the human organism by transferring it into the digital form. To better explain it, machines that produce materials received into their software a new code that changed the textile in the way that HIV virus changes the human body.
Textiles destroyed by the algorithmic patters represent skin, which often show the first manifestations of the AIDS virus (sores and cancers). Mimicking the HIV viruses constant mutation, hybrid-mutational sculptural forms are also presented according to the artist's idea. Textile with the disturbed static that lost its firmness and quality offers new possibilities in designing new clothes.
