The Seam, Seam Garments explores how seaming practices, such as exposing, exaggerating, multiplying, highlighting, reducing, removing, eliminating, and depicting, can articulate the semiotic relationship - and the space that exists - between, the garment and the body. By exaggerating seam allowances, inserting enlarged faggoting stitches, drafting single piece patterns and placing digitally printed seams these garments disrupt traditional approaches to constructing garments and in turn the body.
During the Seam, Seam Fitting Sessions visitors were invited to try on the Seam, Seam Garments in the bedroom of a private apartment, as they might do when dressing for the day in their own home.
Photography of installation and garments by Christian Capurro. Photography of fitting session by Yvette King, featuring Kel Glaister.