Venus Dissolved (2024)

Textiles envelop our lives beyond the obvious. Fabric not only serves as clothing, allowing us to create new iterations of the self through the act of dressing and undressing, but also serves as infrastructure, both ideological and physical, taking on lives and figures of their own. We embody the fabrics of our environments, adopting and adapting internal senses of belonging in the world, as well as negotiating who belongs in our own. By immersing my audience in a textile saturated space, I aim to investigate how fabric becomes a framework through which we move, breathe, and render our bodies into sites where both gender constraints and empowerment manifest materially. As patterns, forms, and textures intersect, we are confronted with the judgments we pass through these sensory experiences, both on the self and on the other.

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