The project “Embodied Materiality” investigates ambivalence of fabrics at play and its abilities to seek new tangible knowledge in architecture. Textile materiality is a sensing we interact with on a most personal level daily, yet its contingent fluid – liquid qualities still feel rather under disguise in the field of pre-defined and static.
Stemming from Pipilotti Rist’s “Ever Is Overall” video installation, the ‘Embodied Materiality’ explores a moving body and its relation to a fabric, weighted and shaped by a body’s trajectory, forces of power and gravity.
Working with fabric in layered modes of analogue and digital have allowed me to explore and reconstruct the chosen video fragment, intervening and stitching the seams of the interstice. Constructed wearables are not adapted to a one specific body part nor a function but rather take on the fluid statelessness of the fabric, being able to interconnect and inhabit various bodily features and their movements, taking the body as a site.
It aims to question how and where the envelopes of our lived
environment (being it body, clothing and building’s skin) meet and
what happens at the points of breakage.
