Seams to be Architecture

There is an implicit connection between spaces and bodies. The field of architecture has a limited, subject-object framing of the two, which fails to consider the full range of flux spaces undergo and how they have the ability to impact us. In Architecture in Abjection: Bodies, Spaces and Their Relations, Zuzana Kovar proposes the concept of the abject, which embraces ephemerality and operates in a state of in-betweenness, to reexamine our ideas of architecture. Rather than regarding buildings as resolved, finished structures, they are constantly in flux.

Through a careful dissection of clothing into seams and brick walls into mortar, I reveal the underlying structures, which go unnoticed despite their crucial roles in supporting us and our bodies every day. Through material transformation, casting the clothing seams in cement and concrete, the architectural structures meld with clothing, which carries traces from the body. When these two structures are stripped down, there is no longer an inside or outside. These forms appear precarious yet are structurally sound. These preserved connective tissues meld body and space, operating within the abject lens, to reexamine our relationship to spaces and structures around us.