The identity of a subject is fragmented, uncertain, unfixed, not compatible with a linear way of thinking. So is the body and its significations, or meaning-making processes rooted in the phenomenological experience of the world.
EPI/DERMIS is an attempt to embody the hybrid. It reflects on the dialectic relationship between the body and identity – natural and unnatural, human and inhuman, beautiful and grotesque, compelling and repulsive – by using skin, bridge and barrier between an inner and outer world. The elements in play create an entanglement of structures and environments that are constantly evolving.
In the form of a series of physical experiments aiming to explore the aesthetic dimension of experience, the project entails the display of a body that is fluid and mobile through the re-sculpting of its surface (a re-skinning of the body), and engages with the transition from material to immaterial – object to screen and screen to object – by conceiving the screen itself as both a 'second skin' and a boundary between the digital and physical world.

Sculptural Silicone Prosthetic, detail

Sculptural Silicone Prosthetic, detail

Sculptural Silicone Prosthetic

Silicone Sculpture: Reconstitution, projection

Glitch, projection

Glitch, projection

Silicone Sculpture: Reconstitution, still image

Silicone Sculpture: Reconstitution, still image

Hybrid visual generated with machine learning experiment. Visual Input: Silicone Sculptures

Hybrid visual generated with machine learning experiment. Visual Input: Silicone Sculptures