Project about the monastery Mariavall in Tomelilla (Sw), by architect Dom Hans van der Laan. A series of privat rooms, reconstructed as felt models. Repetition reflected  in form.

Tomelilla

A series of three embroided table cloths. The form and size of the tables and cloths are based on the floorplans of historic social housing in Rotterdam (Kiefhoek and Vreewijk). Citings are from a wide range of artists and thinkers and relate to 'living'. 

In a second iteration the work was extended by a booklet containing the floorpans and citings. And a pair of  wooden Kitchen Tables. The Tables were based on the floorplan of the kitchen, scaled down to the size of a table. 


The work was first shown in PARK - Tilburg in a curated exhibition by Corrie Besems (T)HUIS.  Secondly at RAM - Rotterdam
The table cloths are machine embroided in the textile lab of Textile museum, Tilburg.

Borduren Wonen Denken (Table Cloth)

House Wife is a series of two diptychs that deal with the notion of the positioning of woman in an interieur/household. In this case in a historical context.
The embroided images are based on 17th century painting by Pieter de Hoogh and depict a woman doing household tasks. The adjective 'housewife' has been separated both in title and image.

House Wife

“We have lost the dark, dancing wisdom of woman, our deep ways of knowing, our creative, life-giving fire. We have become separate from the world around us; we’ve abandoned our roots in nature and the land.”

(If Women Rose Rooted – Sharon Blackie)

Ik wilde de aarde terugbrengen naar een vrouwenhand. Ingegeven door de wetenschap dat we met een opschaling en efficiëntie te veel van de aarde vragen. En een besef dat een paar duizend jaren geleden de kennis van de aarde en het bewerken daarvan veelal bij de vrouwen lag.

Feminiene kwaliteiten als zorg, openheid, gelijkwaardigheid liggen verscholen in deze ‘hand-held objects’.

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A collection of completed pieces emerging from ongoing material and spatial research. Exhibited, commissioned or realized, each work builds on the experiments documented in the Lab.

Tomelilla

Borduren Wonen Denken (Table Cloth)

House Wife

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