Soft Armour

2023 ongoing


The outside is the chaos. The inside is the order. Both chaos and order are systems. The order is a system where a third party is able to detect a structure while the chaos is a system one cannot comprehend. It can be described as the inside and outside - while the inside is the known area one is able to keep under control whereas the outside is unexpected. Shrinking this idea that can be interpreted in multiple scenarios and every scale down to the human body, the inside represents the body and mind we assume we control. It is a shield that is used to protect from the outside. In my work I use the idea of the human body as being a shield, an armour that protects us, but it is soft, fluid and unstable. The vulnerability behind carrying an armour, the softness behind the defence. This system we desire to know so much like a plexus that grows all by itself, goes out of control and destroys the threshold between systems. A series of garment pieces that represent a soft armour looking like the body turned itself into the armour itself. The inside that grows on the outside to hide, protect and assimilate. The protection becomes no longer the aim to save what is on the inside, but takes over the main purpose. Defending is existing.