Duration: 3 mins 45 secs
Date of the work: 2016
Medium: Single-channel video with stereo sound
Exhibition history: 3rd Istanbul Design Biennale (2016)
*co-created with Jenny Mercieca
While Wild Flower is just as much a fashion film as much as it is a work of video art, this marks the first time that Tabone has selected the medium of video for her art in a way that goes beyond the promotion of her wearable art collections produced through the QUE Design Studio. Personifying the titular floral inspiration for her gladiolus earrings, which have also been presented in both the UK and Italian editions of Vogue, Tabone produces a film that captures the world she wants to create with the introduction of her wearable art. It is a dreamy yet sophisticated environment where fantasy and reality blended in a way that produces an ideal backdrop in which her wearable art finds its place along with any other piece in her art catalogue.
Wild Flower was created in 2016 and shown during the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennale. Tabone and Mercieca’s team for this work included performer Ecca Muscat, make-up artist Sarah Doublet, hair stylist Elena Cassar, with original music by Kurt Aquilina and a voice over by Toni Sant.
