This form of resistance allows a new language to develop.
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Cabinet institute
Artagon patin, Paris, FR
CURATOR gASPAR wILMAN, jEANNE tURPAULT
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Shellywound is a new form of life-support machines. This object will tend to be ‘unsealed’ and removed from their native form. Shapes of shellywound strongly reference to medical machines, particularly devices aimed at sustaining life functions through physical separation, such as a child's incubator. Since childhood, I have tried to avoid the classifying gaze, questions about my “body”, gender, and identity. I felt the frustration of others when I couldn't consolidate something that appeared to me as irregularly stretched across reality. The defense mechanism I developed was a return to the earliest months of my life, to the clement transparency of incubator glass. Having experienced necessary incubation in the early stages of life, I encountered technology that kept me alive and increased my chances of development. Revisiting these events, I became interested in examining my daily behaviors and choices from a technological, rather than anthropocentric perspective. Shellywound is a device which explores concepts of protectiveness and caring.