Verlan x Kendell Geers - Navy

$71.00
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Description

In collaboration with the South-African Kendell Geers. The t-shirt is made from a beautiful, heavy (300GR) and dry organic cotton. It is built to support you for years. Each t-shirt is made to order in Portugal, handmade as well as hand-numbered. 

  • Only 50 t-shirts in limited edition
  • Already 44 ordered
  • Signed and numbered by the artist
  • All profits will be donated to Mosaic
Fit and details

Fit is straight, confortable and boxy.  We recommend you take your usual size. Model is 1m85 and weights 75kg and wears size L. 

If you prefer to wear your t-shirt tighter, and for women, we advise you to consider one size below.

Sleeves are rather long so to arrive above the elbows. The rib is wide, has double stitches and tightly holds your neck. 

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Fabric and Care

The fabric is a 300GR heavy and dry 100% organic cotton (GOTS certified). Due to the use of natural dyes, the outward appearance of items may vary slightly from one another. The fabric used may vary in color and pattern from item to item. The fabric is unwashed before confection so to prevent from its water overconsumption, then the product may shrink slightly when washed.

  • Wash less and cold - at 30°
  • Use an environmentally friendly laundry detergent
  • Hang to dry
  • Donate or recycle
Shipping and Returns

We ship all over the world from Paris. Once your t-shirt is dispatched, you'll receive an email confirming the tracking details.If for any reason you wanted to return your order, we accept returns within 28 days of delivery as long as the item is in perfect condition.

  • Free pick-up in our showroom located 81 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris
  • For France Relay Point delivery costs 5€
  • For France door to door shipping costs are 7€ 
  • Free delivery in mainland France from 75€ purchase
  • For Europe (inc. the UK) shipping costs start from 7€
  • Shipping costs outside Europe are 29€

 For more information, view our dedicated page

About the artwork

By changing the English translation of Rimbaud’s classic «Une Saison en Enfer» into the plural, artist Kendell Geers creates a play on words that is as poetic as it is political.

All our seasons are now in hell with heat waves, floods, wildfires and droughts protesting against human habits.

Kendell Geers shatters the reading even further by breaking down the words into SEA SON SIN and HELL. The reference to the classic 1978 song Sea Sex and Sun by Serge Gainsbourg is not a coincidence because the two artists share the same passion for words that have double meanings. Kendell Geers draws our attention to the direct link between our luxury lifestyles and how they affect climate change. Our SONS and daughters now pay the price for the SINS of our parents and grandparents.

Fabric and Print

The fabric is a 300GR heavy and dry 100% organic cotton (GOTS certified) with a straight fit and large rib at the collar. The fabric is unwashed before confection so to prevent from its water overconsumption. Dying and print are done with natural pigments.

Kendell Geers

Born into a working-class Afrikaans family during the height of Apartheid, Kendell Geers quickly found himself fighting a Crime Against Humanity on the front lines of activism and protest. From his strong experiences as a revolutionary, he developed a psycho-social-political practice that held ethics and aesthetics to be opposite sides of the very same coin, spinning upon the tables of history. In his hands, the discourse of art history is interrogated, languages of power and ideological codes subverted, expectations smashed and belief systems transformed into aesthetic codes.

Describing himself as an AniMystikAktivist, Kendell Geers’ work embodies a syncretic approach that weaves together diverse Afro-European traditions from Animism and Activism, to Alchemy, Mysticism and Ritual Magick.

His strategies are without compromise because he believes that “Art changes the world - one perception at a time.” Geers’ works are held in the permanent collections of public institutions including: Centre Pompidou, Paris; MAXXI, Rome; Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago and ArtPace, Austin.

About the charity

Kendell Geers chooses MOSAIC, a South African* NGO who works to prevent and reduce abuse and domestic violence by providing holistic, integrated services for the healing and empowerment of women through support services, access to justice and training.In order for this theory to become a reality, MOSAIC invests a portion of its efforts in ensuring participation in networks, conversations and campaigns that will effectively change the situation for women and girls who are exposed to violence and crime.

*South Africa is a country where rape and violence rates against women are among the highest in the world.

Working with the best

Texmin is a factory based in Portugal near Porto. It’s been more than 30 years they are partnering with top brands including levis, a-cold-wall or Maison Kitsuné. Texmin was the first factory we met when we were visiting Portugal for the first time and the only that trusted in our project. We are everyday in contact with Raquel, whose in charge of us for more than two years, and Francisco, the owner of Texmin. With Francisco, we share the want of keeping things small and qualitative, being obsessed by details. That’s why he keeps his number of employees below twenty, that he keeps investing in new machinery or new facilities as to offer top level working conditions to his employees. Being the best always has been the goal of Francisco and Texmin, and we are thankful to have them on our side.

They all talk about it

Where to find us ?

If you want to try anything or if you just want to talk, please feel free to visit our Parisian showroom located near le Marais by contacting us by phone + 33 6 74 57 56 62

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