2024 INDUSTRIEMUSEUM
Views of Embroidery and Production Workshop
Artist residency
February 1 – March 31, 2024
Join Hand in Hand with All Who Work, upcoming solo exhibition
Industriemuseum, Ghent
May 4 – June 30, 2024
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Collaboration has been a fundamental tool since the beginning of my Curtain project, which are textile works that are mostly made working with different people, in different contexts and places, using different materials and techniques, always influenced by the history and textile knowledge particular to the region where the project is developed.
My residency at the Industriemuseum in Ghent was based on the idea of producing work with the infrastructure and materials that the museum provides, its fabrics, yarns, machinery, knowledge, etc. To make the residency community-focused, I directed an open embroidery and production workshop on Sundays and Wednesdays during February and March of 2024. People were introduced to embroidery techniques, or if they already had experience, they could join and practice, even help me teach.
I always try to be as horizontal as possible. The overall designs of each piece are my creation yet what is important is how the work is produced, collectively, learning and spending quality time together, hopefully also creating a small community around the work. It takes patience to embroider. It is also very relaxing and therapeutic. What I like about the workshop format is that participants learn something new and that I also learn from them, and maybe people who are not familiar with the museum will come, which becomes a good opportunity to narrow the gap between my work and its audience, as part of the conversations revolving around the working sessions are as much about life, as about craft, history, politics, and art (our different understandings of it). The workshops I have done in general are very diverse, people of different ages and backgrounds join, mingle, and even make new friends and professional contacts.
To be able to do all this I worked closely with Kenneth Santy and Laurence De Craene. Kenneth is one of the Jacquard Loom technicians, and he also guided me with the use of the TC2 Digital Jacquard Loom, in which I managed to produce one piece. Laurence is a specialist in textile dyeing with natural pigments. She assisted me with dying cotton, into black and yellow. All the fabric used for this project was woven in the museum.
My warmest and deepest thanks to all the workshop participants: Paz Ortúzar, Felipe Muhr, Fabiola Burgos Labra, Linda Mayer, Sebastian Kulbaka, Noah Kulbaka, Roan Windels, Jim Pulguere, Vani Oza, Aida Carvalho, Stan Steegeling, Imke Tys, Isabelle Verthé, Katia De Busscher, Pei-Hsuan Wang, Tine De Weerdt, Dora Boeraeve, Alyson Van Mullen, Griet Noels, Kristien Van Poucke, Maj Van Giel, Manuella Noterdaeme, Veerle Maes, Annemie Vandorpe, Katleen De Turck, Hanna Prudnikova, Erwina D’hoore, Suzanne Pauwels, Violette Foulon, An Vandevyvere, Serge Sfefaniak, Katrien Heyman, Carine Van Remoortere, Katelijn Van Moere, Chris Cappelle, Josie Vranken, Neve Bükszegi, Nancy Meirhaeghe, Delphine Labyt, Isabel Van Lierde, Jule De Mecheleer, Carla Poppe, Fien Straetmans, Marina Palmieri, Luz María Braithwaite, Julie Van Der Elstraeten, Domingo Inostroza, Sara Mohammad, Sabine Van Lancker, Doreen Rogin, Lieve Huys, Heidi Verstappen, Jolien Van Goethem, Eva Da Cunha E Silva, Luise Honecker, Ann Foquet, Lieve Bolseus, Piró Pallaghy, Marie-Paule Doom, Camille Breslin, Maria Elizalde, Sevgí Gerçek, Anita De Backer, Lena Vanhout & Femke Pauwels.
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As an intersection of two projects one workshop was conducted based on the exhibition project by artist Gustave Demoen, in which he invited 33 artists to participate in the collective exhibition “Great Noses Are Blown Alike — Zakdoekenpocket — Les Mouchoirs de Poche”, all handkerchief devotees. Images below.
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