Relationships: Invisible, but Extant
Relationships 1 (15 ft * 4 ft. Used curtain, tablecloth, T-shirt, fence, LED lights)
This exhibition was designed to provoke awareness of the adverse ecological impacts of the fashion industry.
The textile industry is one of the major sources of pollution related to multiple levels of the ecosystem. Each year over a hundred billion items of clothing is produced globally. During washing and manufacturing synthetic textile products, thousands of different chemicals and tons of microfibers are emitted, and the emission causes risks to aquatic organisms and terrestrial biodiversity including humans. These are complex webs of interaction that go unseen.
The expressive textile artworks poetically reference the visible and invisible relationships between our lives and the textile industry. Like the ambiguous relationships between nature, human, and the industry, you have to stop and look at the relationships we have ignored or missed.
Projection on white polyester
The roots under the ocean (14ft * 6.5ft. Optical fibers, used jeans, curtain, tablecloth, fence, projection)
The umbilical cord (2ft * 5ft. Optical fibers, used curtain, tablecloth, fence, projection)
CLO 3D
