Embodiment Garment

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Embodiment Garment is a concept that brings out the medical prosthesis as a wearable and individualized organ of the body itself. A body that integrates at the same time the mechanical and the organic, culture and nature, the simulacrum and the original, fiction and life. A body open to inaccuracies, asymmetries and differences, and recognizing in them its wholeness
Being CREATEX a program that aims to strengthen European textile culture as a source of reference, the technical warp knit pattern made by the Portuguese company LMA, was the starting point for the materiality of this collection.
In addition to a beehive pattern, this warp knit, when viewed through a magnifying lens, reveals its primary, secondary and tertiary ribs, as well as the anatomical structure of a leaf. This interpretation, in a certain way, raised my gaze to the leaves concept, by reading the book "The Life of Plants", by Emanuele Coccia, and was accentuated with the creative residence in Sweden, where we were led to meet the Trädgårdsföreningen, a greenhouse from 1878 which shelters exotic plants in a Mediterranean climatea.
Thus, synchronicity gave meaning and value to the initial foundations of the project, engendering meaning with what was once just a leaf: gaining dimension, its stem materializing in an upper limb shape, and its ribs branching out like a wearable piece. This is piece number 1, a kind of mantle, all printed by Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology, which integrates a transradial passive right upper limb prosthesis into its wearable construction.
Gold and copper leaves applied to the printed structure in a flexible filament called Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), while elucidating the transience of the material's state of leaves, which changes its color, fractions, wrinkles, creases and shrinks, breaks, preserves and sacralizes the limb in question.

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