Fragments of a Pinned Existence within a Synthetic Body is a conceptual, unwearable avant-garde fashion piece that lives between art and experiment.
Created for the DDW under the theme “Past, Present, and Possible,” it explores the fragile dialogue between human and machine the body and its synthetic extensions, emotion and code, AI and HI.
In this age where technology evolves faster than our capacity to feel, the work reflects on the human struggle to remain whole to sense, to fear, to wonder. The garment is made of skin-like fabrics, stretchy mesh, and tulle, printed with original digital artworks by the artist inspired by virtual realities otome games worlds where choices create alternate fates.
A poem translated into binary runs across the fabric like a broken transmission, intentionally glitched to resemble misprinted receipts memories collapsing into code. Staples, pins, and sharp fragments pierce the textile, transforming the body into both weapon and wound.
This work embodies discomfort as a form of awareness a reminder that pain, too, is feeling, and feeling is proof of existence. Between wires and silence, it asks: how much can a human endure beneath the
Fragments of a Pinned Existence within a Synthetic Body
A conceptual fashion piece exploring the fragile tension between body and machine. Crafted from mesh, tulle, and printed textiles with staples and pins, it embodies vulnerability and asks: how much pressure can the human body endure under technology’s relentless speed?
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This project is part of
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Hosted by Lama Aldayoub
Lama Aldayoub is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who possesses a skill set of flexibility that brings together the disciplines of visual arts, storytelling, new media, conceptual art, theatre, and design.Her work tends to capture modern-day tensions in society and negate current social norms