“The main focus in my work generally, is to analyse the human body as an
entity, and as the media of the present. In my latest collection
External Body, the reality of body has changed into a biotechnological
project. The collection External body is inspired by the texts of a
french philosopher Jacques Derrida. The main idea of the collection is
fading of borders between the organic body and its dress. In the past,
our choice of dress was a way to express individuality. Now the body in
itself has become a form of expression: a text that can be re-written
and re-shaped by technologies and performance. In the 90`s the
technological cyborg body of machines and computers inspired fashion.
Twenty years later, the cyborg has changed into a biotechnological
complex, where technologies appear organic and natural.“
External Body by Emilia Tikka
