Artwork
Body Architecture - Collective Wear x 8
Lucy Orta, 1998
- Ref: 0052
- Materials: Polyamide tent, aluminium coated polyamide, various textiles, 3 x telescopic aluminium armatures, zippers
- Dimensions: 400x260x120cm
- Catalogued: p28 Phaidon Press, UK 2002
- Exhibition history: 1999 Modern Art Museum Kyoto / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Japan; 2006 Gallery Continua Beijing
- Courtesy: Gallery Continua San Gimignano-Beijing
- Concept: Body Architecture - Collective Wear x 8 is a family enclosure created for ‘Visions of The Body’ at the National Art Museum in Kyoto, an exhibition which toured throughout Japan from 1998-1999. This seminal exhibition surveyed the radical transformation and perception of the body over the last 100 years. Lucy Orta's contribution explored ideas for detachable garments that combined together form a common enclosure, enabling a small nuclear family to zipper themselves on and off the external collective membrane, both respectful of the individual and collective body.
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