When you’re at the mall shopping for clothes, shirts and pants hang neatly from the racks, pristine and fresh. The smell of new clothes fills the air and raises the spirit. But how did those intoxicating garments get to you? Who made them; what are the conditions at the various factories across the world where they were produced; and what happens to the leftovers and waste along this sprawling supply chain? To get into your hands, those clothes touched the lives of so many people and places. But there, in front of you, all you see is the final result, presented at its best, that long trail behind it very well concealed.

Indonesian designers and artists Widi Asari and Riyadhus Shalihin would like you to think about all this. Their latest installation, Bodies That Consume, displays racks of clothing in rows, all neatly separated under the tall, bright rafters of a repurposed church. But the clothes themselves are far from fresh, the history behind them starkly clear. The path these clothes took is stained deeply into the fabric and design, written plainly in simple prose on its tags.

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