2025
Bocklet
STRÄCKNING is a mimetic production of assembling instructions, drawing from the well-known aesthetic from multinational furniture conglomerate, combined with the concept of ergonomics. The brochure entails female figures in varied postures with detailed descriptions, notes or directions, providing an oblique way of measurement for bodies and its functioning. By accumulating imagery of reproduced mechanism, the artist attempts to synthesis a set of somatic knowledge, in parallel with the pre-modern illustration of corpse, skeleton and anatomy, which remained metaphoric iconography before shifting to accurate depiction. What is a wholistic idea of human body? In the face of AI with the help of transhumanism, the body seems more conceptual than ever. STRÄCKNING resists the unipolar conception of bodily reality, in search of a blurry line between science, materiality and poetics.