FERRAPOLIS 2021

By PAP Magazine Editorial

Two bodies sprawl across a stark white studio floor, their stillness offset by the restless surfaces wrapped around them. The standing figure wears an asymmetric pleated dress in translucent fabric layered with urban graphics and cartoon fragments, as if reality had been overlaid with an augmented screen. The reclining figure contrasts acid-yellow trousers and a gold-flocked floral jacquard pouch with the same dense multi-print textile spiraling loosely around limbs. Black-and-white face paint and bleached hair reinforce anonymity amid chromatic overload, while the relationship between the two remains deliberately ambiguous. Under flat, clinical light, the tableau reads like a digital collage made physical — a collision of virtual imagery and tactile matter, befitting the name FERRAPOLIS, a metropolis where code and cloth coexist.