c l u s t e r e d

Is the fear or disgust towards images of clusters of holes and circles, known as trypophobia, a niche online aesthetic trend or an actual scientific phenomenon? Agnieszka Cieszanowska explores the limits of scientific explanations for these ambiguous reflexes, surveying online communities, user experiences and aesthetic theories of attractive disgust. c l u s t e r e d materializes this digital phenomenon into a collection of double-sided textile pieces embodying the essential qualities of trypophobic images. Installed within a contemporary cabinet of curiosities, which historically collected and stored foreign elements for interest and estrangement, these multisensorial samples demonstrate the abject skin between human knowledge and the human body.