Alice Lang

" I was interested in redefining he relationship/border between traditional wearable objects & the body, through the creation of fleshy wearable pieces (reminiscent of period clothing) that integrate & interact with the subject. Bonnets and bustles mutate, grow tendrils & attach themselves to their host like a strangler fig, overtaking their body to form a new decorative flesh." Alice Lang

Lang's practice explores the possibilities for sewn sculpture to explore, & complicate, the relationships between concepts of the decorative & the grotesque, particularly their association with depictions of femininity. To so this she uses traditional sewing technique known as the Suffolk Puff to reference the use of old techniques in the creation of t new objects/organisms that are a hybrid of the craft.

I am so intrigued by the way that by altering the materials with which Alice Lang constructs the typically feminine clothing articles, she is able to change the meaning of the clothing pieces.