Based in Brussels, artist and designer Lucie Briand's artistic practice is rooted in a multidisciplinary universe that closely links fashion design, installation, and performance. Her research is based on concepts such as intimacy and social norms, exploring issues related to the body, health, and collective memory. The personal and collective bodily narratives she creates explore the boundary between the sensitive and the political, while seeking to make invisible experiences visible and open up spaces for fluid thinking. The recurring use of liquids - such as water or herbal infusions - symbolizes processes of healing and resilience, as a form of resistance to structures of domination.


































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02.MOVING THROUGH PAIN 
collective protection and knowledge of endometriosis


Publication

MA Thesis Contextual Design
Design Academy Eindhoven 

Supervisor: Maia Kenney
Graphic Designer: Léna Monot

2025

“The medical system underfunds medical research into diseases affecting womxn, resulting in gender disparity and extreme discrimination, confining sick bodies to a state of total disinterest in the eyes of the dominant. The journey of endometriosis is deeply individual, lacking any sense of collectivity. The urgency is then to find ways to organise ourselves in order to avoid the individualisation of each persons suffering from endometriosis, resulting into an extreme isolation and misunderstanding of this chronic disease. How can we find a way to collectively protect ourselves from any kind of violences that results from the medical environment? People with endometriosis suffer from chronic pain primarily due to the lack of recognition and care within the medical system, leading to the isolation and the individualisation of each person’s experience. I argue that the lack of medical research and care for endometriosis causes harmful isolation of those affected by the disease, however, endo collective protection can serve as a strategy to reorganise pain management by integrating holistic practices alongside the existing medical knowledge. I aim to understand the relationship I have with the pain and living conditions of people suffering from endometriosis, and through this text, I hope to inspire you too.”