The project started in summer 2012 in northern Finland. http://www.kulttuurikauppila.fi/
During this three-month residency, with these installations along the island of Illinsaari, Ii, through texts obtained from recycled textile materials, commonly used to weave rugs during the long winter months, I sought to extend drawing and writing to the physical spaces of my home-studio and then to the context of nature. These portable embroideries are the real-life manifestation of a series of previous works in which I had fixed the geography of my emotions, embroidering phrases and aphorisms on landscapes or domestic places printed on small canvases.
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The video The air we breath the water we draw from the stream shows a quote taken from Foucault’s The order of the things made of cloth and silhouetted on a natural background.
The air we breath, says Quisnays, the water we draw from the stream, and all the other sovrabuondant goods, are form of of wealth common to all men, are not marketable. They are commodities, not wealth.
Moreover the installation pink medieval bed in the forest is dedicated to the language and the space.The town where the residence took place is called Ii. I found that this minimal word (Ii) is connected with the meaning of “good sleeping” . Maybe in the past it had been the place where sailors were used to sleep or take a rest in their travelling. I built a textile drawing of a pink bed medieval and I fitted up it on a three in a forest.
https://vimeo.com/224974333
BACKSTAGE E STUDIO
OTHER SLIDES
‘The industry, the arts and the sciences introduce new object in the circle of exchanging’.
‘It will be necessary to apply a portion of the sign representing values to the new values of these new productions’. Graslin
‘We meet once more with the old metaphor of the coniage that is to the society what the blood is to the body’
