Shape Shifter

Shape Shifter' deals with the cultivation of the body through fitness culture, questioning the obsession with an 'ideal' imposed by society. The gym has become a factory-like space, perpetuating an idea of the ideal body, trapping the human in an endless cycle of permanent performative act of self-realisation. Through this project, Flora Lechner asks if exercising can become a creative statement instead of a numb obsession. The 'Shape Shifter' machine holds the body in a loop of repetitive prewritten movements. Engaging with it initiates a cycle of relational dynamics, merging human and machine into one entity. Working out stops being a spectacle of the body and becomes a spectacle of the action.