BECOMING ONE WITH THE FURNITURE
With sensitive body painting, this artist lets her body “merge” into a leather sofa: the diamond-shaped quilted pattern of the furniture extends like a second skin over her face, arms, and legs. The nuances of gray, brown, and beige mimic the texture of the leather – still without the typical brown coloration, which may be planned as the next step.
Her outfit reinforces the illusion: a black dress encloses the lower body, while “free” skin is visible through mesh sections, which, however, connect to the sofa through fine lines. The resulting ambivalence – body as furniture, furniture as body – plays with the human tendency to lose oneself in one’s surroundings. A subtle statement about identity and adaptation, packaged in an optical illusion that both reconciles and disturbs the eye.
