During the “Rojo Nova Work in Progress” exhibition at the Sao
Paolo Museum of Image and Sound, Australian artist Lucy McRae
showcased her unique safety pin art.
Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, Lucy McRae has
evolved into a body architect who “invents and builds structures on
the skin that re-shape the human silhouette.” In a statement, the
museum says “her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful
imaginery suggests a new breed; a future human archetype existing
in an alternate world.”
This time, she relied on hundreds of safety pins, glued on most
of her body, to depict how evolved humans might look in the
alternate world of her vision. The first reaction upon seeing her
is something like “what has she done to her body?”, but then you
notice the pins are just glued to her skin and you begin admiring
Lucy McRae as a work of art.
