‘Reweaving Ourselves’ is a research project that aims to reestablish the link with textiles by valorizing and humanizing the weaver-material relationship, as a way of resisting the dichotomy between time and production in industrialized societies. The connection of weaving with nature is strongly rooted in indigenous traditions of the Global South, but more recently also with industry. Following this path, this
project aims to bring forward an intimate and sensorial relationship to textile materiality and through this a decolonial understanding of art and ecology.
‘Reweaving Ourselves’ involves creating a series of works that relate to the mummification of fruits and vegetables, as an act of conservation and care of life itself, with a recognition of human dependence on nature. This cotton is used for weaving covers and the decomposition of the living body is assisted. The mummified objects tell a particular story, the cycle of life and death, and how to care for a “living sculpture”.
The research on this liminal space between life and death, the constant mutation of living organisms, that defy the impermanent, forms the core of this project. It questions how organic material nevertheless can be sustained over time, looks for concepts of permanence in this delicate state of interdependence and creates new understanding through material and social research on textile techniques and histories and offers thus alternative ways of socializing art towards environmental awareness and ecological thinking.
