Synagoga in Excess - Dressing the Invisible

This project reimagines the medieval figure of Synagoga through a dress that acts as both relic and threshold. The dress embodies what history has silenced – a displaced tradition, a fallen dignity, a royal remainder. Informed by Derrida’s concept of différend and Kantorowicz’s theory of the king’s two bodies, it resists assimilation and asserts the right to appear otherwise. Situated between sacred and profane, textile and ritual, it becomes a transformative site – where memory, care, and difference are rendered visible in material form.