TOOLSHED #3 - After Library Fridays

Come by on Friday, November 13 or 20 between 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM for the After Library at Kunstinstituut Melly. Discover the library, borrow books and clothing, and get to know the work of initiators Thulile Gamedze and Tlotliso Skefu. The After Library (2025–) is a small, experimental library of clothing and books that brings together collective reading with speculative design and the way clothing is worn and experienced. The garments are designed and made in response to texts selected by friends. Subsequently, combinations of garments and books are lent to a growing circle of friends and collaborators. In this way, social histories of wearing and reading emerge, in which clothing and books together create new experiences and connections. The After Library was initiated by Thulile Gamedze and is continued in collaboration with Tlotliso Skefu. The project is part of TOOLSHED, a residency and research program of Kunstinstituut Melly that investigates how we shape, question, and transform cultural institutions.