NGV- Westwood | Kawakubo

For the Westwood | Kawakubo exhibition at NGV International, InTension joined a collaborative design-development framework alongside Studio Peter King and the gallery's in-house team. Tasked with establishing a spatial context worthy of two of fashion’s most radical iconoclasts, our studio translated an initial concept into a fully realised exhibition format. Through multiple technical and material iterations, we developed a striking, irregular knife-pleat structural system. This sharp, punk-edged architectural gesture references Westwood’s aesthetic. By suspending a semi-translucent material from custom curved extrusions, the installation manipulates light and shadow to inject depth, atmospheric tension, and volume into the gallery space.