The installation is a burgundy mass assembled from women’s work aprons. I use the attributes of the work uniform to point to the nature of unification. This uniform doesn’t unite; it absorbs individuality, erasing the spectrum of differences and stripping the body of its personal traces.
150×90 cm
There is a duality in this gesture: on one hand, we see cohesion, collectivity, the capacity to act together; on the other, homogenization leads to dissolution—the transformation of living individuals into a single, almost indistinguishable entity.
Through textile materials, I explore how work uniforms become tools of fusion. But this fusion turns out to be less about achieving a shared strength and more about forming a lifeless collective body—a vast mass where individuality is stifled. The mass of aprons, suspended from the ceiling on fine threads, hangs in a state of tension between unity and loss: the tighter the cohesion, the heavier this shared flesh becomes, and the more vulnerable each individual inscribed within it grows.
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