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Shifting into the sincere body

Yingxiao Zheng

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Yingxiao Zheng is a maker-based designer who focuses on social issues, exploring themes of gender and real-life events. She is dedicated to investigating the connection between the body and manufactured objects, using design as a medium to question, reflect, and redefine the boundaries between the physical self and the artifacts we create and inhabit.

Yingxiao Zheng is a maker-based designer who focuses on social issues, exploring themes of gender...

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This project aims to challenge societal disciplinary discourse around the body through wearable fashion objects. In my practice, I employ a design language that combines surgical sutures, simulated bruising tattoo techniques, and forms reminiscent of "discarded body tissue" to explore how grotesque aesthetics can be transformed from a visual fringe into an enduring bodily practice. The series visually narrates the complete journey from "trauma and repair to everyday wear." By repurposing tissue removed through liposuction into wearable bag accessories, I transform it from an uneasy warning into a sincere blessing for the body.

Final work

  • Medical symbols, such as surgical sutures and bruises, visually materialize the discipline imposed on the body.
  • Medical symbols, such as surgical sutures and bruises, visually materialize the discipline imposed on the body.
  • Medical symbols, such as surgical sutures and bruises, visually materialize the discipline imposed on the body.
  • By softening forms and altering details like bruising, a visual progression toward healing emerges.
  • By softening forms and altering details like bruising, a visual progression toward healing emerges.
  • By softening forms and altering details like bruising, a visual progression toward healing emerges.
  • The artwork transforms from a realistic body shape into a daily accessory, completing an emotional shift from unease to celebration.
  • The artwork transforms from a realistic body shape into a daily accessory, completing an emotional shift from unease to celebration.
  • The artwork transforms from a realistic body shape into a daily accessory, completing an emotional shift from unease to celebration.
  • Functional demonstration
  • Full-body adornment
  • Full-body adornment

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Shifting into the sincere body

This project aims to challenge societal disciplinary discourse around the body through wearable fashion objects. In my practice, I employ a design language that combines surgical sutures, simulated bruising tattoo techniques, and forms reminiscent of "discarded body tissue" to...

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