ABOUT
Undressed is an exploration of the intimate relationship between the body and lingerie. Examining Intimate dress beyond the surface, using creative practices to translate sensations, memories, and experiences into visual and tactile forms, to consider how this relationship is not only worn but also felt and observed through a continuous dialogue between presence and absence. It begins with the act of observing the body and the garment, and the silent exchange between them.
Through the art of printmaking, photography, and Poetry, Undressed moves beyond the constraints of a traditional publication. Creating an experimental and expressive space for personal exploration. The works resist a clear definition, instead allowing emotions through abstraction, textures, and forms.
OUR CREATIVE PROCESSES
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Cyanotype is a photographic printing technique that uses UV light and light-sensitive chemicals to create a negative image. A surface is coated with the solution, and objects are placed on it before exposure to UV light. This reaction produces a negatively developed image, softly imprinting the object's form and subtle surface details.
The use of cyanotype in undress is guided by its capacity to yield organic, unpredictable results. Each print develops with a rawness, allowing forms to emerge rather than be fully controlled. Rather than detailed representations, these prints offer only glimpses of the original objects, evoking an essence of presence through absence.
Cyanotype subtly reflects the transient, intimate relationship between the body and the garment. It communicates what remains rather than what is fully seen, mirroring touch, memory, and the delicate impressions formed through wear. In this way, it becomes a visual marker for the traces left behind.
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Gelli printing is a Mono printing method that uses a soft gel plate to transfer layers of paint and texture onto paper. Materials such as fabrics, lace or photographs are pressed into the surface, creating impressions that are lifted through layers. This process allows for a mark-making technique with each pull, creating a unique combination.
The use of gelli print in Undresses is informed by its ability to fragment and distort. Forms do not appear in full; instead, they are broken, repeated, and obscured. Mirroring how intimate dress often remains hidden and unseen. These representations resist direct representation, shifting the focus towards materiality.
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Monoprinting is a printing process that produces a single, unpredictable image by directly imprinting ink. Marks are created under pressure, yielding immediate, expressive results that capture a moment that cannot be replicated.
Within Undressed, monoprinting is used to explore the physicality of touch; the process allows for direct pressure reconstruction of the raw form, holding onto the energy from contact and release. Created to mirror the marks left on the skin by intimate dress, translating the dialytic interaction between fabric and skin into a visual language of presence.
Intimacy is no singular thing, more so a tandem of acts, the act of letting someone close, into a thought, into a space, into oneself.