In experimental and processual procedures I develop my own methods of reworking materials that surround my body into other narratives. Since 2014, I have been developing textile works (tapis concrète), including carpets and wall rugs made of ashes, concrete and textiles. In a practice of unlearning, the textile becomes the support for the concrete, which is thereby transformed into fragile and lightweight material.
The social construction and binary attribution of gender-based properties – concrete in its association with architecture as a masculine, monolithic practice on the one hand and textiles, carpets, patchworks as a traditionally feminine craft on the other – are interwoven here. Existing orders or hierarchies begin to crumble, unravel, disintegrate.
My way of working gives space to the materials and processes, making use of chance and decay in order to form different narratives and combine them into a whole. At the same time, the fragile character of the resulting works holds the potential to generate experiences out of the fractures and cracks, inviting us to consider things from different perspectives, to deconstruct existing structures and to formulate novel approaches.
tapis concrète 12.5 material: pigment, ash, cement, hand dyed wool, silk, linen / size: 255cm x 140cm x 0,7cm
AC2117 material: burned sienna earth, wooden ash, cement, hand dyed wool, silk, linen / size: 41cm x 54cm x 0,2cm
tapis conrète n°17 material: burned sienna earth, wooden ash, cement, leather, hand knitted silk / size: 86x188x1cm
tapis concrète n°10 materials: concrete, lashing straps, leather, handwoven linen/ size: 91x173x1cm
tapis concrète n°11 materials: pigmented concrete, handwoven indigo linen and black wool/ size: 98x163x1cm
tapis concrète n°15 materials: pigmented concrete, handwoven wool, linen, partly printed with pigmented latex, leather / size: 91x173x1cm
tapis conrète AS13
material: different pigmented concrete, linen / size: 211x82x1cm
tapis conrète AS16
material: different pigmented concrete, leather / size: 142x71x1cm
tapis conrète AS14
material: different pigmented concrete, leather, linen / size: 190x91x1cm
tapis concrète n°4 materials: pigmented concrete, handwoven wool, silk, cotton / size: 235x140x0,7cm
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