Fuengfah (Bougainvillea) Factory

Juli Baker And Summer

Artemin Gallery

I’ve always wanted to dress in a way that feels true to me. From childhood to my teenage years and into who I am today, fashion has been a way of exploring myself, trying on identities, emotions, and ways of being. Even when I imagine myself as an old woman in the future, I picture her through what she chooses to wear.

Studying fashion taught me that clothes are never just clothes. They carry labor, history, and the hands behind every seam. Clothes can comfort, reveal, hide, or resist.

This exhibition was inspired by a documentary about Thai female garment workers (Hara jeans factory)in 1975, during a brief moment of political awakening, when student and worker movements challenged military power. Some of the women were only fourteen. They took over their factory, produced their own jeans for sale, played music, read books, and fought for fair pay. Watching it felt like a coming of age film, except the main characters were working class women and everything was real.

Fuengfah Factory is where these stories meet. A shared imaginary factory where dreams are woven, identities are tried on, and lives are formed between labor, resistance, and small little joys in life. Like bougainvillea growing along factory walls, bright, delicate yet resilient, it is made by the people, for the people.

This exhibition is a thank you letter to the workers who stitched the clothes that shaped me and to the younger versions of myself who learned who they were through what they wore.

Fuengfah (Bougainvillea) Factory
Juli Baker And Summer

Dates: 2026.JAN.10 ⭢ 2026.FEB.10

Opening Recception: 2026.JAN.10 | 15：00

Venue: Artemin Gallery (111 1F, No. 32, Ln. 251, Jihe Rd., Shilin Dist., 111, Taipei City, Taiwan)