Raw Body, series, 2023

Embroidery on textile

Installation view at Art OMI, NY

The "Raw Body" series represents a progression from the previous project, "Em/body/ies," showcasing embroidery artwork that delves into the intricacies of the human form, particularly focusing on deformed female bodies. Through these textile works, I aim to present the female body as a raw material, in an ongoing search for a new body, a new skin— an object that can be manipulated and changed. In this project, the body becomes the source of transformations, acting as both a canvas and a frontier for exploitation. It is seen as a social construct and a performance, offering opportunities to make the body disappear and reappear, to deform it, and ultimately to manipulate it in various ways.

In this series, the deformed bodies are depicted in various poses, each fabric work exhibiting a unique and harmonious composition, intentionally causing unease and confusion as distinguishing one body part from another becomes challenging. The complexity of these artworks lies in their capacity to portray the human form in a way that is both recognizable and distorted, laying bare their vulnerability in a peculiar state. The bodies appear both individual and interconnected, creating a captivating yet unsettling tension. 

Through this work, I try to abstract the usual depiction of female bodies. I try to manipulate the forms of figurative representations to present new ways of looking at nudity, or other expressions of embodiment.