‘OMEN’ is a prophecy — a rupture, a summoning.
Part sculpture, part fashion, part confession, OMEN is a reckoning: an experimental material journey in which liquid latex becomes alchemy, conduit, and second skin.
Handmade by Janine Grosche through an intuitive process of material research, moulding, and manipulating liquid latex, translucent skins emerge as emotional structures and temporal vessels for the body. Suspended between garment, artefact, and sculpture, they absorb traces of body, material, and process, becoming mythical relics of transformation and ritual.
OMEN challenges the boundaries between clothing and art, treating the garment not as a finished object, but as a temporary body: vulnerable, protective, and in constant transformation.
2025 - onwards
Sculptural snakeskin corset handcrafted from translucent natural liquid latex by artist Janine Grosche for PATH. A unique wearable object exploring skin, texture, translucency, and the boundary between fashion and sculpture.
Sculptural hair bodice by Janine Grosche, handcrafted from translucent snakeskin latex with embedded hair. A wearable sculpture exploring the relationship between skin, body, material, and transformation.
Sculptural elongated overbust corset by Janine Grosche, handcrafted from reinforced translucent natural latex with an intricate snakeskin texture, merging traditional corsetry with experimental material practice.
Translucent vessels, trays and sculptural objects handmade from natural liquid latex, extending the OMEN material research beyond the body. The works explore how rubber can be formed into exceptionally thin, translucent skins while remaining stable enough to stand as self-supporting objects, a technique developed through extensive material experimentation.
Custom flesh-toned translucent latex look developed by Janine Grosche / PATH for COBRAH, featuring a body-cast wearable latex bodice and individually handcrafted latex skins. Developed to evoke the appearance of a second skin, the look extends PATH’s material research into a bespoke sculptural form shaped around the body.
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FKA twigs wearing pieces from the ‘OMEN’ series by Janine Grosche / PATH, including a translucent snake-skin latex dress and sculptural jacket made from reinforced latex leather. Both are handmade from natural liquid latex.
Translucent snake-skin latex mini dress from the OMEN series, handmade from natural liquid latex by Janine Grosche / PATH and worn by FKA twigs.
SKIN SERIES:
Wearable Latex Artefacts as Sacred Skin. Experimental material explorations with natural liquid latex, developing handmade translucent latex skins through processes of moulding, transformation and material manipulation. Exploring embedded matter, hair, structure and the relationship between material and body.
June - July 2024
Natural Latex Artefacts as Living Bodies / From the Earth for the Body / Relics from Nature / Ephemeral Ecosystems between Process, Form and Matter
LATEX ARTEFACTS AS SACRED OBJECT - Serving ray made of natural liquid latex with embedded hair.
Wearable latex artefacts by Janine Grosche / PATH, developed from translucent natural latex skins with hair embedded within the material. The works explore the boundary between skin, material and object through surface experimentation and the development of artificial latex fur.
SIREN SERIES:
Experimental material explorations with natural liquid latex and artificial hair, forming translucent, skin-like artefacts drawn toward the mythologies of sirens, water and the shore. Hair and latex merge into ethereal bodily forms, suspended between garment, relic and organic matter.
January - May 2024
Natural Latex Relics / Sirens / Ethereal Earth Bodies
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UN-EARTH:
Sculptural Artefacts as Living Bodies
Experimental material explorations with organically dyed beeswax, natural latex, hair, hemp and repurposed leather. Materials encounter soil, mud, water and fire, forming sculptural relics that explore transformation, impermanence and the shifting relationship between process, form and matter.
2022 - 2023
Wax Artefacts as Living Bodies / Relics from Nature / Ephemeral Ecosystems between Process, Form and Matter
EMBODIMENT: Sculptural Garments as Extensions of the Body
Experimental explorations of garment construction, material and the body through leather, rubber, foam, cotton, nylon and wax. Sculpted surfaces, exaggerated structures and anatomical forms transform clothing into extensions of the body, exploring the shifting boundary between garment, skin and sculpture.
2021-2022
