I was welcomed in this world with freshly bleached cotton sheets, and from the moment clothes touched my skin, I felt their fibres pollute my lungs. Cotton, satin, rayon, and polyester hold the weight of my life within their weaving. Joy, heartbreak, fault, fear, and sexualization stain my whites and all their threads. They stain them all until the end.

                      My clothes hold the tales of my lifetime,

                                            Constantly defining and blurring the lines of my identity.

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Through Dreams of Polyester Bella Laflamme and Marguerite Morin present an installation that speaks of womanhood at different stages of life and the fibres of identity given and taken from women. Their exhibition took place in Gallery 115 from October 30th to November 9th, 2023. Through this exhibition, the artists worked entirely in collaboration for the first time and incorporated a new medium to their practice: cyanotype on clothing.

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Dreams of Polyester allowed both artists to further explore their own feminine identity while also questioning stereotypes and patterns that also affect the women who surround them. Through this collaboration emerges Laflamme’s interests in domesticity, Morin’s questioning of The Self, and ultimately, both artist’s attention to femininity as a whole.

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