Swvwn monsters 2025

Seven Monsters | A Study in Color

The foundation of this study is rooted in the artist’s diagnosis of partial color blindness. In this project, this unique sensory perception is transformed into a research tool, resulting in a new system of codes based on specific color receptor sensitivity rates: 100% blue, 87% red, and 0% green.

This sensory starting point evolved into a sculptural study in fabric. Beginning with the theme of nightmares, the work examines the number seven as a central axis connecting dreams, trauma, and identity. The result is an emotional project that draws on anger, pain, and frustration, deconstructing the spectrum of colors to assign primary hues new psychological, spatial, and somatic meanings. The garments and designs function as "transitional objects" where color is linked to memory, borders, and expressions of physical and social aggression.

Five "monsters" stand before you; the remaining two are you and me.

• White: Shroud and Cyclicality

  White cotton fabric symbolizes the absolute, the shroud, purity, and pain. Its architectural structure and long trains create a feeling of movement within a ritualistic, transitional space, hinting at cyclicality.

• Blue: History, Monopoly, and Fluid Identity

  Denim is layered into voluminous sections. This non-binary form explores cultural appropriation and the transition between different cultures and places.

• Green: Absence as a Creative Principle

  The pattern, born from the artist's inability to see green, transforms absence into a creative principle. The reversal of the fabric "eviscerates" it, exposing sharp seams and dividing lines that delineate sections like plots of land. The hidden textile and military aesthetic hint at concealed power and a constructive order.

• Red: Processing Trauma

  Red becomes the color of clotted, dried blood. The tailored wool suit provokes a dialogue between reduction, rigidity, and the attempt to stabilize a wound.

• Black: Mourning as a Praxis of Control

  Tailored wool serves as an expression of mourning, caught between the desire for release and the limiting forces of cultural markers. It represents a censorship of pain and sadness—a hesitation between the desire to see and the need to look away.