​My MA graduation project "Splitting of the Subject" is an abstract visual representation of pregnancy and the transformation of the body in that state. The title and initial inspirations comes from an essay by feminist philosopher Iris Marion Young, describing pregnancy from a phenomenological standpoint. The outfits are not maternity wear, but shape abstractions over literary descriptions of pregnancy in the form of garments.

Made in 2021

“The pregnant subject, I suggest, is decentered, split, or doubled in several ways. She experiences her body as herself and not herself. Its inner movements belong to another being, yet they are not other, because her body boundaries shift and because her bodily self-location is focused on her trunk in addition to her head.”
​(Young:2005:46)

YELLOW CIRCLE DRESS

RUFFLE SHIRT & RUFFLE TROUSERS

PINK RUFFLE DRESS

RUFFLE COAT & PLANT TROUSERS

LONG CIRCLE DRESS