Videos
2022
Langue vagabonde
Performance on 17 September 2022
Texte, Texture, Textile exhibition, Odradek, Brussels, Belgium
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Réparation, indian ink and oil painting on rice paper, hand sewn, 350 × 300 cm, 137.8 × 118.1 in, 2019
Langue vagabonde, digital video 4'31'', performance on 17 September 2022
Natalia Blanch and Marina Gasparini collaborated on the concept of the performance Langue vagabonde which took place on 17 September 2022, as part of the exhibition Texte, texture, textile at Odradek gallery in Brussels.
The encounter between Marina Gasparini's and my work is in the idea of displacement. Marina refers to the movement of objects using the phrase “What migrated was portable”. She created lettering by sewing together used fabric clothing whose textures mainly represented flowers. In her performance, Marina packages the letters one by one in the order of the sentence.
In my work, I alludes to the movement of people. I unfold and fold the work Réparation made of pieces of rice paper torn and sewn by hand, approximately 400 × 300 cm. An excerpt from the poem “Separation” by John Berger is embroidered on its surface. This poem addresses the profound transformations that affect the lives of people who emigrate. The hand-sewn rice paper works evoke attempts of repair and reconstruction based on my experience.
The gesture of unfolding and folding the large, embroidered work of art and the recitation of the excerpt from the poem constitutes her performance and, according to Simone Schuiten “implies the care and risk we face every time we defy the constraint of leaving our places and our roots”.
