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KRV

CONCEPT

KRV (krew {f} /krɛf/ = blood) derived from the Polish word krew, meaning blood, is an unapologetic rejection of patriarchal systems that have long dictated how we relate to our bodies, our waste, and our worth. This project transforms slaughterhouse by-products — pig’s blood and bones (gelatin) into a bio-latex. In this project I have worked both with blood in its liquid and powdered form and created garments. KRV challenges the taboos around blood, but more than that, it creates space for a deeper dialogue about the blood we’re taught to hide, female blood, the blood that gives life and yet is treated as unclean.

Inspired by Slavic pagan rituals, where blood was once offered to the gods, painted on altars, and used as a sacred medium of connection, KRV revives a forgotten relationship with the raw. Blood is not just a material here, it’s a message. It stains, scars, binds, and speaks. The garments are layered in symbolism. Each piercing is a modern blood oath. Each texture is an invocation. The body becomes the altar, and the garment becomes a spell cast in resistance.

Inspired by anti-fashion, punk, and ecofeminist movements, KRV exists in defiance. It turns waste into a weapon and adornment into provocation. The material is handmade: blood boiled and blended with gelatin and glycerin, poured and cured into sheets, layered with natural latex, always provocative. The project is not about comfort, but confrontation. It doesn't ask for permission; it dares you to look closer.

In a culture that shames the female body, KRV exposes its power. It’s speculative, bio art, anti-design, anti-fashion and material-led project.

This project is a call to bleed loudly, to wear what we’ve been told to hide, and to turn the most discarded parts of life into a radical form of creation.

Because if blood is sacred, then we are the altar.

PRESENTATION

KRV by Aleksandra Piotrowska

VIDEO

REBEL ARTE: INTERACTIVE FASHION & ART SHOWCASE

ReBel Arte: Interactive Fashion & Art Showcase Curated by @thehomeof.id – Barcelona, March 14, 2025 (blood moon eclipse)

I had the opportunity showcase my KRV project by creating an installation featured an interactive piece where I painted with blood on a plain fabric a provoking question:

"WHAT WOULD YOU BLEED FOR?"

Using real pig blood as paint, I wrote the question and invited visitors to contribute their thoughts, confessions, and ideologies directly onto the piece. Instead of repulsion, the responses I received were full of curiosity and fascination. People wanted to talk about blood. They wanted to touch the fabric.

Blood is typically met with fear or disgust, but here, in this darkened corner of Barcelona’s experimental underground, it became a medium for dialogue.

As part of the installation, I also displayed a &customized T-shirt: on the front, the poster of my project, on the back, the words LOOKING FOR A VIDEOGRAPHER (for the final video).I wore it to a party later that weekend, and it helped me to connect with a few people. I met several creatives, photographers, and potential future collaborators. That T-shirt was networking in its most punk form.

On that day, it was also the night of the Blood Moon. It felt like the ultimate alignment of story, timing, and intention. A ritual of reclamation, dressed in blood and bathed in red moonlight.

THESIS

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