SEWING
This project is documented and organised chronologically on the page.
The archival consists of videos of the performances as well as photographs of the artifacts collected and the works they inspired.
Sewing and shaking, 6h & 6°C
Paris, February 2019
Performance
On the 2nd of February 2019 I wandered around Paris, only a pair of tights between myself and the world. For this performance I approached people asking for things they would be willing to sew onto the tights.
During the course of the performance a new layer of skin was added to my body, formed through the contacts I had received. It was a demonstration of the warming nature of human kindness, and my own permeability to these encounters.
Sewing and shaking, 6h & 6°C
Paris, February 2019
Photographs of the performance. To see them click on this picture
My skin
made of all the contacts had during the performance Sewing and shaking, 6h & 6°C
Paris, February 2019
Each item received during the performance 'Sewing & Shaking, 6h & 6°' was photographed and put into an edition of archives.
Archives
Objects received during the performance Sewing and shaking, 6h & 6°C
Paris, February 2019
Photographs reunited in an edition
From these archives I painted 75 oil on canvas of very variable dimensions, like the objects received. Called 'Relics of contact', they represent all of the stitches of touch.
Relics of contact
Paris, February 2019
75 oil paintings, variable dimensions (from 0,5x0,5 cm to 25x25 cm)
Sewing and scattering
Paris, March 2019
Performance
For the second performance of this series I returned to the streets of Paris, to return to the public the symbols of what I had received; the 'relics of contact'.
The participants were asked to select a piece which I would then sew onto them.
Having said goodbye to the last person, the paintings - symbols of the kindness I received - were scattered throughout the city.
Portraits with relic
Paris, March 2019
Photographs reunited in an edition
Each person -on which I had sewed a 'Relic of contact'- was then photographed with the painting sewed on their heart.
