Textile work

BA submission 2020

Over the course if my BA, I started exploring disruption, and the power we give to purpose and function. Those themes would be the backbone to my final submission, and I started a series of black line drawings depicting unusable tools and mechanisms. Making a series of oversized soft Useless Tools was the perfect way to question the ways we overlook and take tools for granted until they stop functioning properly.

When lockdown started, this questioning became essential to me. Two dynamics took place : we, as a society, started noticing the 'key workers' we had been taking for granted; and in the same time, 'non-essential workers' were forced to question the meaning of the existence they lead. I could not have foreseen how relevant these second hand fabrics soft sculptures became, But I think they managed to bring me joy and keep me curious at that time.

I took tremendous pleasure making these pieces, and thoroughly enjoyed working on this multi-facetted project. I somehow look at disruption in a way wider scale, now it is proven the entire world can be disrupted at once.

The world needs spaces where playful disruption happens, to spark conversations and for the world to move forward. I want to keep on making people slightly uncomfortable, because it is in this specific setting where you do not flee but start thinking rather than rejecting what you see that the conversation happens.