Manual Intervention
Youbin Kang | 2014 | Textiles & International Relations
This piece is a digitally printed body suit laid on top of a long scroll of anatomical drawings. It is a costume for the worker in a garment factory. The suit reminds the viewer not only of the anonymity and foreignness, alien belonging of the worker, but also of the individuality, humane, and personal connection that first world consumers have to workers that produce clothing in distant places. The drawings represented in the suit represents organs, bones, muscles, mechanic functions, roses, landscapes, and factory-scapes to represent the 'being' and 'other' within a concurrent space of the body.
Youbin Kang | 2014 | Textiles & International Relations
This piece is a digitally printed body suit laid on top of a long scroll of anatomical drawings. It is a costume for the worker in a garment factory. The suit reminds the viewer not only of the anonymity and foreignness, alien belonging of the worker, but also of the individuality, humane, and personal connection that first world consumers have to workers that produce clothing in distant places. The drawings represented in the suit represents organs, bones, muscles, mechanic functions, roses, landscapes, and factory-scapes to represent the 'being' and 'other' within a concurrent space of the body.
printed body suit
