Ffasiwn

Ffasiwn opens at the National Museum Cardiff on 23 May 2026 and runs until 4 April 2027. It's a photography exhibition drawn from It's Called Ffasiwn, a socially engaged, anti-fashion project built over more than a decade of collaboration between artists Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte James, who work together as the studio Bleak Fabulous, and young people across the south Wales Valleys.

Sitting between style-led image-making and documentary practice, the work challenges assumptions about who fashion is for and who shapes how communities are seen. Rather than observing from a distance, the artists work through sustained relationships and shared making, with the young people acting as creative partners. Rooted in familiar places and everyday experience, the project foregrounds contemporary creativity, humour and ambition within local communities and offers a community-led way of seeing Wales. The images have been picked up by The British Journal of Photography and profiled in The New Yorker.

Curated by Bleak Fabulous, the show gathers nearly sixty prints, films and publications and traces the project's evolution from its first shoot with the Coed Cae youth group to more recent sessions in pubs, cemeteries and sportsgrounds, as the team marks its ten-year anniversary. It's a long run, so you've got plenty of time to fit it in over the coming months.

Admission is pay what you can, minimum £1, and museum admission is free.