{"id":218847,"date":"2025-10-22T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218847\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:13:09","slug":"brandon-morris-ghostly-fiberglass-gowns-float-through-a-paris-gallery-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218847\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Morris&#8217; Ghostly Fiberglass Gowns Float Through a Paris Gallery \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a month in which hauntings and ghastly cosutmes are a ubiquitous sight, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/codeunknown_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Brandon Morris<\/a> presents a new body of work that taps into a shared sense of unease. The New York-based artist makes his Paris debut with Tissu Expans\u00e9, a collection of five fiberglass and resin gowns that appear as though they\u2019ve come to life.<\/p>\n<p>Constructed in pale blue, the spectral works are part of Morris\u2019 Ghost Dresses, a series that stitches together fashion and sculpture through garments that materialize without a body. Bodices are full, while skirts angle as if they\u2019re moving with an invisible owner. One piece even lunges forward, the arms reaching out with what seems like a kick of the back leg that lifts the hem upward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/morris-1.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of stiff pale blue fiberglass victorian style dresses by Brandon Morris that stand without wearers in the middle of a gallery\" class=\"wp-image-464223\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tissu Expans\u00e9 is more lively than the artist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/01\/brandon-morris-actress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier collection<\/a>, which saw hunched shoulders and bent postures suggestive of monstrous occupiers. While similarly haunting, these pieces appear less sinister, arising more as whimsical apparitions than supernatural villains.<\/p>\n<p>Morris\u2019 exhibition is on view through October 30 with <a href=\"https:\/\/europa.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Europa<\/a>. Keep up with his practice on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/codeunknown_\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/morris-2.jpg\" alt=\"A stiff pale blue fiberglass victorian style dress by Brandon Morris that stand without wearers in the middle of a gallery\" class=\"wp-image-464224\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/morris-3.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of stiff pale blue fiberglass victorian style dresses by Brandon Morris that stand without wearers in the middle of a gallery\" class=\"wp-image-464225\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/morris-4.jpg\" alt=\"A stiff pale blue fiberglass victorian style dress by Brandon Morris that stand without wearers in the middle of a gallery\" class=\"wp-image-464226\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/morris-5.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of stiff pale blue fiberglass victorian style dresses by Brandon Morris that stand without wearers in the middle of a gallery, seen through an archway\" class=\"wp-image-464227\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/morris-7.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of stiff pale blue fiberglass victorian style dresses by Brandon Morris that stand without wearers in the middle of a gallery\" class=\"wp-image-464229\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Hide advertising<\/p>\n<p>Save your favorite articles<\/p>\n<p>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Receive members-only newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a month in which hauntings and ghastly cosutmes are a ubiquitous sight, Brandon Morris presents a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,93569,1120,96,709,10552,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-218847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-brandon-morris","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-sculpture","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}