Green Art Gallery- Call for Clothes Exchange

Green Art Gallery is inviting individuals and communities across the UAE to contribute garments on behalf of artist Rossella Biscotti, in preparation for her upcoming solo exhibition at the gallery, opening in April. Initially conceived in Germany in 2018 and now developed in relation to the UAE, the work engages with the city as a place shaped by desire, labour, economy, and necessity. Desire is understood here not only as aspiration, but as a driving force of production and representation. The exchanges through which the garments are collected reflect this condition: each contribution is an encounter, a conversation. The gesture of giving becomes part of the work itself. The project invites your garments connected to labour, identity, representation, belonging, or a particular moment in your life. Clothing is understood as a system of signs rather than as a functional object. Working clothes, symbolic garments, everyday wear, or items tied to personal memory all articulate how individuals position themselves within social space. This is not a donation in the conventional sense. It is an invitation to contribute with items that carry personal meaning, memory, or symbolic weight—pieces that have been kept, lived with, labored in, desired, or worn to signal belonging, identity, or transformation. What matters is not the garment’s monetary value, but the meaning it holds for you. At its core, the project reflects on how a city is built through what we wear, and how identity is stitched together through representation, negotiation, and choice. It is a work about relations and exchange—about what we choose to give, and why. The resulting artwork will form part of Rosella Biscotti’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, opening in April 2026. This project is not about discarding clothes. It is about sharing something personal. Something considered. Something precious. Contributed garments will be brought together with other personal pieces to form the work.