Anzelma Forlano
Nail Polish, Pins and Patience were my three means of transforming an inconspicuous wedding gown into a metaphor for my own emotional state. This project became an exploration of my gender identity and how it clashes with societal expectations, and more so whether those expectations are ones I desire to meet.
The wedding dress is a symbol of things I find desperately out of reach. My goal in life has never been to marry or have children, so I suppose the distance of the wedding dress from my lived reality is more an urgent performance of separation and, much like the performance of gender, I feel the need to enact this too. So I give you this, my ode to Miss Havisham, a lonely and mysterious woman perpetually trapped in her wedding gown in a crumbling manor, and a complete work of fiction.
The questions I asked myself during the process of making this work remain murky, unanswered and more unclear than ever. What is clear, however, is that I now have a very long gown and not enough closet space to store it.
“Untitled gown about gender”, 2020
Nail polish, linen, satin
“Untitled gown about gender”, 2020
Nail polish, linen, satin
“Untitled gown about gender”, 2020
Nail polish, linen, satin
“Untitled gown about gender”, 2020
Nail polish, linen, satin
”Untitled book about gender”, 2020
Nail polish, paper, linen
280mm x 440mm x 30mm
”Untitled book about gender”, 2020
Nail polish, paper, linen
280mm x 440mm x 30mm
”Untitled book about gender”, 2020
Nail polish, paper, linen
280mm x 440mm x 30mm
”Untitled book about gender”, 2020
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280mm x 440mm x 30mm
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