Masterbatch Extruder

WEARABLE SCULPTURE
2015 Berlin

Material: foam, textiles, coated materials.

© Susi Hinz. Photo: Johanna Fritz


Masterbatch Extruder is a wearable sculpture constructed from technical foam — a material developed for industrial insulation, regulation, and control. Removed from its context of optimisation and reinserted into the field of sculpture, it carries the logic of standardisation into direct contact with the body. Rather than functioning as neutral support, the material structures posture, restricts movement, and conditions spatial presence. The body becomes the site at which industrial systems are registered physically — not as abstraction, but as pressure, weight, and resistance. Situated between apparatus and adornment, the work exposes how materials designed to stabilise environments also participate in shaping subjects. Activated through the body, Masterbatch Extruder renders visible the subtle infrastructures that contour corporeality.