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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
is a grotesque project with a focus on textile and material transformation. the model wears a suit made of dirty face wipes and the 3d model wears a dress made of snakeskin. It aims to explore the disgust felt with the changes of who we are.
An exploration of grotesque bodies, and how the we shed ourselves like snakes.
The body suit exists of my dirty facewipes that i wiped my own makeup off with, then gelatine plastic wounds and hand brushed wool to create the fur. tHe 3d model was created in two different 3d softwares. the garment on the body was created in clo3d, and the avatar was modelled by me in blender.
wIth Metamorphosis , I was mostly inspired from the critical writings of the grotesque. The reason I chose this topic, was that the grotesque body is always choosing to say something. It is not complacent with the world it is in, and so it blends and opens itself to its surrounds to force us to look at it.
a major influence for the ideology of the "Grotesque" was Mikhail Bakhtin in his book "Rabelais and his world." He questioned the simple analysis the term had been given and sought to uncover a deeper and more justified meaning. some of his ideas that stood out to me are about exaggeration and the blending of worlds.
he states that
Exaggeration, hyperbolism, excessiveness are generally considered fundamental attributes of the grotesque style.
the example of grotesque the object of mockery is a specific negative phenomenon, something that "should not exist". 306
"The limits between the body and the world are erased, leading to the fusion of the one with the other and with surrounding objects."310
"The unfinished and open body (dying, bringing forth and being born) is not separated from the world by clearly defined boundaries; it is blended with the world, with animals, with objects." 27
This open body is a notion that is synonymous with the grotesque. Francesca Granata writes that "the grotesque body is an open, unfinished body, which is never sealed or fully contained, but it is always in the process of becoming and engendering another body."
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