Graphic logo, black angular L-shaped form on white background, minimalist geometric design with bold right-angle composition.

Lina Vargas De La Hoz

Black textile tent-like object installed indoors, photographed against a white exhibition wall.

The work consists of a black coat with a white collar that is transformed into a tent structure. A garment associated with professional representation, status, and formal belonging is converted into a temporary shelter. The work addresses economic mobility, adaptability, and precarity within global systems of labor and power. The coat refers to a business world shaped by male-dominated norms, in which visibility, authority, and belonging are organized through formal codes. By transforming the coat into a shelter, this logic is displaced. Business identity is no longer presented as a stable position, but as a shifting condition that offers protection while simultaneously exposing vulnerability.

Publication details

Type

Textil object/ Performance

Year

2011

Materials

Waterproof fabric, plastic rods

Dimentions

as a tent approx. 128 × 128 × 80 cm; diagonal 182 cm