Assemblage Apocalypse
The overconsumption of textiles is a big contributor to the climate crisis. The world is on fire, but we’ve all heard that by now. Climate pessimism often leads to inaction instead of change. These works deal with textiles, consumerism, sustainability, and the apocalypse.
The works display two settings. One: a dark mannequin-like body filled with waste materials, with video surrounding it, representing the humanities’ failure to reject consumerism. The other is a textile shelter, a makeshift hut, handmade, layered, and strangely domestic, with the apocalypse as a transformative process rather than an end.
Both works use discarded materials. Both sit in the tension between comfort and waste, care and decay, survival and disaster.
Above all, the collection holds onto a fragile hope: that change is still possible through resourcefulness, creativity, and reuse.