Wax Dress, mai 2023
Live performance, wearable sculpture (wax strips, yarn)

Résumé:
Wax Dress is a hybrid performance, fashion, and sculptural work that reclaims body hair as a symbol of resistance and empowerment. Made using over 80 Veet wax strips, stitched together with yarn, with visible body hair still attached, the dress was worn during a live art event (art contexte), functioning as a wearable protest and a personal monument to the unspoken realities of girlhood.

Themes:
Femininity, body autonomy, gender expression, social norms, recycled materials, post-colonial critique, ecofeminism

Concept:
Built from the literal residue of beauty rituals, a mix of trash and, well, me, but a part of me (my pilosity) that I was shamed for, having started my puberty at a young age. I started waxing myself around 12, a ritual I wanted to demonstrate publicly to reclaim pain as something empowering. The process of puncturing and folding each wax strip becomes an act of defiance against ingrained expectations of femininity, rooted in consumerism and bodily control. The piece reflects my love for recycled materials, my body, investigating what we see as trash, or abject, disgusting.