Textiles
2023-25
Ensemble errant
Exhibition 2022
Text, texture, textile, Odradek, Brussels, Belgium
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Ensemble errant, oil painting on hand-sewn paper and crocheted text, 130 × 110 cm, 2022
Ensemble Errant was created for the exhibition Texte, texture, textile in response to the phrase “What migrated was portable”, with which Odradek's resident artiste Marina Gasparini constructed one of her works.
Ensemble Errant was built while travelling and has a foldable and light character that can be found in other of my works. I work in strips which are here tied up together by crocheted words: “[...] into what currency have they changed our singing? [...]”, extract from the poem Separation by John Berger, constituting the structure of the work. This poem talks about emigration, language and its transmutation. It arises the question of what we bring and what we leave behind when migrating.
