Second Skin

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Second Skin examines the body as a site of control, transformation, and desire, shaped by pressures of self-idealisation and the social codes that enforce them. A sensuous yet synt hetic latex form is stretched, pierced, and constrained within an unyielding steel frame. Its hourglass silhouette evokes tensions between submission and resistance, confronting the violence of internalised ideals. Alluding to historical mechanisms of bodily control used to discipline and eroticise, the work interrogates identity as constructed through fetishisation, self-surveillance, and self-design. The sculpture invites viewers to kneel and pull its tension cables, participating in its deformation and release. Show more