Hyperdermis

Hyperdermis is an ongoing material research project exploring the present and speculative futures of our largest organ: the skin.

As the relationship between human and machine becomes increasingly entangled, skin emerges as a critical site of negotiation. It is our boundary and our interface — the surface through which we sense, connect, endure, and defend. Skin is both protection and exposure, warmth and warning. It defines where we end and the world begins, while constantly mediating between the two.

In digital environments, “skin” has already become a mutable concept: something customised, exchanged, and performed. Yet these virtual skins remain visually convincing but materially absent. Hyperdermis asks what happens when synthetic, digitally imagined surfaces are brought back into physical space. What does it mean to touch a material that feels almost human, but not quite?

Working with latex and silicone, the series investigates stretch, translucency, fragility, and containment. These works do not attempt to replicate skin faithfully, but to speculate on its evolution — imagining new surfaces that hover between organic and artificial. In doing so, Hyperdermis becomes a laboratory for thinking through future embodiments: how we might wear, alter, extend, or reconfigure ourselves in increasingly hybrid worlds.