Menswear Collection Based on a Research «Bodily Transformation in Contemporary Art»

The body in contemporary art is no longer just an aesthetic object, a reflection of epochs and cultures: now it has become an object for both scholars and artists to explore questions of identity, sexuality, vulnerability, mortality, the boundaries of the physical and spiritual, the impact of new technologies, and, in principle, the question of what it means to be human. The subject of the study is the transformation of the human body, where the object is the work of contemporary artists from the late 20th century to the present day. The aim of the research is to study different artistic approaches and attempt to classify them, as well as to understand what drives the modern artist in the irresistible desire to change and radically violate the original proportions of the human body. The hypothesis of the visual research is that the socio-cultural environment and world events have a direct impact on the artists' and designers' ideas about the body, its possibilities and ways of existence in the visual space. The study clearly demonstrates the diversity and difference in approaches to bodily transformation among contemporary artists, whose works raise a wide range of topical issues. Their works reflect the need for destruction, dissection and annihilation, which, as a consequence, is a way of learning, living experience and an opportunity to reinvent the existing reality.