E: The Woman of the Future, 2002-2003

E in Viktor and Rolf with Puffed Sleeves, 2002

E in Alexander McQueen Evening Gown, 2002

E as Rei Kawakubo, Shopping in Soho, NY, 2003, 3D model integrated into photography, pigment print on Arches watercolor paper

E in Thierry Mugler’s Apron Dress, On the Vienna Underground, 2003, 3D model integrated into photography, pigment print on Arches watercolor paper

E as Thierry Mugler’s Sexy Robot, Visiting Vienna, 2003, 3D model integrated into photography, pigment print on Arches watercolor paper

E in Paco Rabanne, Visiting Chinatown, NY, 2003, 3D model integrated into photography, pigment print on Arches watercolor paper

E: The Virtual Supermodel, 2002-2003

E represents the condition of the contemporary woman in today's post-industrial, technological society. E can mutate her face and body, adapting it to coordinate to the style of her clothing, here all the designs of my own creation mixed with those of the most extreme idea-driven designers of contemporary fashion. E is beautiful, but she is nevertheless the ultimate fashion victim: her face is so mutable that its transformations render her actually faceless. Converging the potential of bioengineering with the contemporary reality of endless fashion-based marketing cycles, E is a metaphor of woman as the ultimate consumer product in a dystopic future world in which the artificial has uneasily crossed the boundary of the real.

* These images use photographs taken by Larry Bercow

Claudia Hart