Un_ravel
As part of the exhibition Enter_nature at Galerie im Körnerpark,Berlin, the participatorywork un_ravel was created in November 2022. In this textileinstallation, the collaborative artistic platform traces explorestransitional spaces in relation to the concept of sympoietics, a termquestioning biological concepts of individuality, coined by thebiologist Lynn Margulis and the theorist Donna Haraway. Over theexhibition period of 10 weeks, visitors are invited to participate ina tactile and cooperative process of multifaceted entanglement.
Fiveamorphous vessels are suspended in the space, each inhabited bysympoietic structures:In constant motion, they create new tissues, unravelling what isentwined. Each vessel consists of looped threads, both firm andloose, deliberate and random. Positioned between the objects, a loom,cocooned in a thin layer of latex, invites a communal activity —weaving. Immersed in deep blue, in this seemingly utopian landscapeof floes and entanglements, threads can be picked up, dropped andreworked. As the weaving continues, the vessels begin to shapeshift,dissolving and expanding as multi-rootednetworks along the loom. The resulting structures are simultaneously determined and discarded, dissolved and expanded — both beginningand end. While these processes seem to be running in opposingdirections, they are inextricably linked in an almost causal chain,as they feed on the same material.
As part of the exhibition Enter_nature at Galerie im Körnerpark,Berlin, the participatorywork un_ravel was created in November 2022. In this textileinstallation, the collaborative artistic platform traces explorestransitional spaces in relation to the concept of sympoietics, a termquestioning biological concepts of individuality, coined by thebiologist Lynn Margulis and the theorist Donna Haraway. Over theexhibition period of 10 weeks, visitors are invited to participate ina tactile and cooperative process of multifaceted entanglement.
Fiveamorphous vessels are suspended in the space, each inhabited bysympoietic structures:In constant motion, they create new tissues, unravelling what isentwined. Each vessel consists of looped threads, both firm andloose, deliberate and random. Positioned between the objects, a loom,cocooned in a thin layer of latex, invites a communal activity —weaving. Immersed in deep blue, in this seemingly utopian landscapeof floes and entanglements, threads can be picked up, dropped andreworked. As the weaving continues, the vessels begin to shapeshift,dissolving and expanding as multi-rootednetworks along the loom. The resulting structures are simultaneously determined and discarded, dissolved and expanded — both beginningand end. While these processes seem to be running in opposingdirections, they are inextricably linked in an almost causal chain,as they feed on the same material.
Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin