YING GAO
Possible Tomorrows (2017) Canada Ying Gao (1977) focuses on the relationship between wearer and garment, but also on the relationship with one’s environment. She attempts to create an interaction between these different positions. The results are interactive dresses that respond to the touch of others. However, the material is only activated in the presence of strangers whose fingerprints are not recognised by the material. On one hand, the work consequently touches upon technology and interdisciplinarity. On the other hand, it addresses notions of privacy and individualism.
Did you know... ...the design of this dress was developed from a series of algorithms associated with the realm of pattern recognition? Watch ‘Possible Tomorrows’ here
Ying Gao: “The aesthetic of these garments evokes hypotrochoids, shapes borrowed from the vintage game Spirograph. Their flattened curves are drawn by a single point linked to a mobile circle that rolls without sliding, on and inside of an initial circle.”
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3. THE EXHIBITION