Kar Interior Kenny (after Issy Wood). 2025.
Vintage Porsche "Pasha" automotive upholstery fabric, produced circa late 1970s, mounted as a wall work. Originally introduced for the Porsche 928 in 1977, Pasha became one of the marque's most iconic interior textiles, its op-art checkerboard pattern, waves like a racing flag—symbolic of speed and victory. Created after the work of British artist Issy Wood, whose celebrated Car Interior paintings examine luxury, fetish, and consumer desire, and the unsettling, claustrophobic intimacy of vehicles. The piece transforms an original fragment of automotive history into an object of visual and cultural resonance.
Because the piece is noted as (after Issy Wood), it functions as an artistic appropriation, homage, or a collaborative response—using actual vintage automotive fabric to manifest the exact car upholstery themes Wood is famous for painting.
Work: 34 × 52 in.
