The work SN Tension is a series of nineteen bitumen tape pieces (used for paving) fashioned into stylized working aprons. The pieces are hung on walls with metal bolts, and on each of them, a textual and numerical inscription is printed in red color. Inscriptions begin with an initialism for serial numbers (SN) followed by a value of the author’s blood pressure (122 / 78). The blood pressure is measured beforehand and printed forty times onto surfaces of bitumen pieces.

Raw bitumen is greatly opposed to any type of wearable fabric and the apron motives made from it are rigidly uniform and extremely heavy. Mainly this kind of contrast between solid forms made from unnatural materials for road working and the association to the body evoked by clothing is important for the author’s message. With said disparity, he strives to examine the space of the human body simultaneously linking it with wider culturological meanings, based on physical health. Body and clothing are emblems of general states of someone’s health or social status, and, as skin pigmentation or bloodstream, type of clothing can also suggest a certain social order. In conclusion, clothing reflects different social states connected to discrimination or revolution, which is why the elements of this work somewhat resemble flags (elongated, bent forms of “aprons”) and the inscriptions that the same contain can be linked to the body as a number derived from a “language of health”. Blood pressure is, in fact, a peculiar measurement for the quality of life, especially if its value is combined with the serial production label. With such a combination of signifiers, the author opens questions concerning the very culture of fast-paced lifestyle, consumption, and corporeality reduced to social codes.