Edie Xu

Flipped inside and out of our bodies, the garment represents abject, void, horror, and tension. ‘Seeing my hole, I know my whole’ (Anne Carson, Eros the Bitter Sweet, 33). Initially developed from the idea of how pockets contains individual items that represent who you are. A void or a whole that represents our wholeness, a representation of the peculiar intimate to us, hidden from the public eye; in a sense abject and inside of us.

The tubular structures in my garment become an infinite pocket or passageway to the body. Also, a representation of tension, the tension between the self and the abject self, gapes hidden away from a sight that arouses a temptation and sacredness. ‘appearance as disappearance.’

‘Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes?’ (Roland Barthes, Pleasure of the Text, 10)