Video documented Performance at Central Station (Sydney, Australia)
Ceramic ‘Flesh’ bag and bra
In this performance, Emmeline Joy Morris wears a ceramic bra and handbag, their surfaces embedded with eyes, mouths, and noses. This unsettling fusion of body fragments produces both familiarity and unease, compelling audiences to question conventional perceptions of identity and corporeality. By placing these “flesh” objects onto her body in a public setting, Morris enacts a deliberate insertion of self into the physical and social landscape, negotiating the distance between private, neurodivergent experience and collective visibility.
The work operates as both performance and manifesto: a gesture toward connection, recognition, and presence within socially mediated environments. The accompanying video intensifies these dynamics through layered moving images, overlaid sounds, and a driving techno track, creating a sensory field that amplifies the tension between disconnection and intimacy, artifact and flesh, the individual and the crowd.
These ceramic wearables were recently presented at the 2025 Fashion Week, where they were styled and worn by public figure and influencer Tara Chandra.
The inclusion within a fashion context extends the ‘Flesh’ series beyond the gallery, opening new dialogues between art, body, and performance, and highlighting the porous boundaries between wearable object, personal identity, and social visibility.