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    Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

    Dec 15, 2019 4 minutes
    by D’Arcy Blake

    June 10 – September 29, 2019

    by D’Arcy Blake

    Virgil Abloh is primarily known for his work as a fashion designer. He ascended to major prominence after founding the luxury streetwear brand Off-White in 2012, and was appointed artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton in 2018. In addition to surveying Abloh’s work in fashion, graphic design, furniture design and music, his retrospective at the MCA Chicago introduces us to Virgil Abloh the Contemporary Artist. Barring the entrance to Abloh’s show are the sort of retractable-belt stanchions used by airports and movie theatres to control crowds. Visitors must pass between the orange and white striped belts, which resemble construction zone caution tape bearing. By combining motifs of working-class labour with the limited-access exclusivity of a cordoned entrance queue, the gesture foreshadows a body of work that, like Robin Hood in reverse, has no qualms with taking the image of the poor and selling it to the rich.

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