Exploit
Category: Apparel
Competitions: Taiwan Region
When possession becomes habitual, boundaries dissolve unnoticed. Beyond Eden, desire emerges and proliferates—an instinct that compels continuous taking, settling into a normalized trace within human behavior, while loss quietly dissipates into the structure that sustains it. This series employs flesh-toned leather as its primary medium, approaching the body as a form that can be reshaped, overwritten, and transferred. Through the juxtaposition of soft and rigid molding, the material oscillates between extension and fixation, mirroring a desire that is at once intimate and unyielding. Layers of varied skin tones accumulate and intersect, evoking surfaces that appear peeled, displaced, or reassembled. Organ-like forms become integrated into the garments, suggesting a primitive and ambiguous language of identity. Fabric operates through its inherent qualities: translucency exposes, weight conceals. Layering and tearing unfold across the body, articulating a tension between occupation and absence. The garments no longer merely cover, but enact gestures of taking—partial, unresolved, and continuous. These attached and appropriated forms belong to others, yet have already been absorbed into the self. As excess accumulates upon the body, what emerges is not abundance, but an inescapable residue—Excess
