A project observing the body in formal business attire, removed from its usual context of authority and performance.
This work explores how authority is carried, performed, and perceived through the human body. The suit functions as a psychological authority — signalling control, competence, and dominance — yet when removed from its institutional setting, its authority begins to dissolve.
By placing suited bodies in states of imbalance, rest, or collapse, the work redirects attention away from status and toward form, weight, and vulnerability.
The absence of posture and performance allows the body to reassert itself, interrupting the automatic assumptions attached to dress and its role.
Rather than confronting authority directly, the 2024 work softens it. Through proximity and ordinariness, the suit becomes less a symbol of power and more a surface held by a human body — one that tires, yields, and resists coherence.
