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LINK TO THE PROJECT : http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~b_nina/cart360/se/index.html
Language is a capacity of communicating by sets of codes, signs or sounds. All languages rely on the process of semiosis to relate them with a particular meaning. Soft Expression is a work that relates to hidden subtleties within language and the body. In fact, our body movements are a set of signals and communicate clues of our subconscious emotions or state. We can notice behaviors such as anxiety, defensiveness, insecurity, availability, confidence, nervousness or the need to be believed. We found it interesting to map our physical movements and communicate them without being conscious of actually making these movements or verbally expressing them. This idea has brought us to sew two identical dresses that communicate the movements of one wearer by lighting specific emotionally meaningful area’s of the body on the other dress to signal this hidden emotion. Body language is an externally physical interpretation, this said, we are now interested in developing an internal interpretation as a additional statement following the same content for our final project.
