Yuwei Hu

BFA Fashion Design Systems and Society

Title: Nine Suns

Updated: August 26th

Nine Suns is a performance art presents activities of each individual’s consciousness under numbers of Truth such as our social structures, political perspectives, religions, etc. From time to time, we humans are obsessed with finding the truth as if it was programmed in us. In the process, humans are constantly trying to convince and validate the mass, the world. Sometimes it might not be so peaceful when it comes to major conflicts of ideology such as wars and violence.

Body movement in individual forms consciousness, and the continuous movement from it in different stage forms stages. The costume and scene together bring out contrast images that highlight forms of consciousness and stages in black and white. While communication happened between individual consciousness, groups, and different stages, forms transformed into a movement of its own becomes patterns of individual consciousness and patterns of the stage.

Yuwei Hu is a fashion designer based in Los Angeles and Beijing. Her design focuses on interactions between the body, the environment, and oneself. In her performance works, she treats garments as occupiable spaces to transform and give experiences to both performer and audience.