In Me, the body appears as a shed skin, a fragile remnant of transformation. The work reflects on the passage into motherhood as a physical, emotional, and existential becoming.
Me is a sculpture made from a waxed textile developed by Fleur van den Berg. Shortly after the birth of her first child, she used this material to make a pattern from her own body. The resulting form hangs upside down like a human skin, emptied of the body that once shaped it.
The work speaks of transformation: becoming a new person, entering a new role, and inhabiting a changed life.The pink-orange skin hangs like a loosened layer of the body. Its hand-sewn pieces retain fine creases and traces of touch, giving the form a fragile, bodily presence. Long dark hairs attach to the form and seem to disappear into the ground, allowing the body to flow into its surrounding space.
As a remnant, Me suggests both loss and renewal. The body is no longer whole, yet it remains present through traces, seams, folds, fine creases, and hair. The work gives form to the moment in which identity shifts, when one skin is left behind and another life begins.
