Lucy McRae is a visual artist and body architect most famous for collaborating with Dutch artist Bart Hess to produce Lucyandbart, a project that explores futuristic human forms that could result from plastic surgery and evolution. Using the body as a canvas, Lucyandbart create grotesque sculptures that directly attack vanities typical in both men and women.
The overly muscled person
The emaciated person
The plastic surgery addict/fashion victim
During her July appearance at Rojo Nova Work In Progress, the seven-week live-art event at the Museu da Imagem in Sao Paulo, Brazil, McRae’s work continued to develop her Lucyandbart themes. McRae glued thousands of safety pins to a model’s face and torso, creating an oddly beautiful effect that was a result of a modern, industrial fashion tool yet simulated fur in a pattern similar to chimpanzee hair, which is sparse on the face and between the shoulders and chest.
McRae’s Rojo Nova work is a departure from Lucyandbart in that, rather than focusing on evolutionary progress, she suggests devolution, or maybe a return to a primal state: those who blindly follow fashion are no more sophisticated or intelligent than primitive humans.
The Rojo Nova recap video beautifully captures the development of McRae’s safety pin work.
Pictures via Creative Tempest and Crushable
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