“Lucy McRae on Swallowable Cosmetics, Speculative Costumes, and Designing the Future Body” — what this page in the network covers. Artist and designer Lucy McRae is charting a provocative course through the intersection of technology, identity, and the human form. Known for her speculative costumes and conceptual projects like swallowable cosmetics, McRae uses worldbuilding to make emerging technologies tangible. Her work asks a fundamental question: how might these innovations reshape our bodies, identities, and relationships with the future?
By treating the body as a canvas, tool, and medium, she challenges audiences to reconsider the boundaries of self and the spaces we carry. McRae's practice is not just about envisioning tomorrow—it's about creating immersive narratives that help us navigate the ethical and emotional terrain of technological change. Her designs, often featured in exhibitions and films, blur the line between art and science, inviting us to imagine a future where biology and technology are seamlessly intertwined. For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.