In a future less speculative than becoming-real, we imagine, design and construct supra-natural body-architectures, drawing the conditions necessary to manufacture, wear and deploy them. Operating on the hymen’s material semiotic register, we envision new hymenoplastic forms to displace and reclaim sexuality as a set of self-authoring maneuvers.
Today, women choose or are compelled to simulate virginity, a concept still secured by the form of the hymen. These performances in body are enabled by temporary and permanent measures: prosthetic artifacts manufactured in discrete markets, operating rooms and private homes, architectures which share in the cultural production of virginity and its commodity forms.
Expounding on current discourse surrounding the role of the built environment in shaping subjects, culture and politics, architecture is understood as the confluence of the technological, social and economic—an organizing force in a constellation of produced and productive objects.