mapping memories

felt, second-hand jumper
140 x 120 cm
2023

How can embodied textile practices provide access to memories held within a landscape? I explored this question during an artist residency in Blönduós, a small village in northern Iceland.

Throughout the residency, I experimented with different methods to “capture” intersecting personal and collective memories spanning time, space, and species. Toward the end, I produced a work of felted and partly dyed Icelandic wool, blended with fragments of the traditional lopapeysa, a knitted jumper.

Supported by the Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds.
Read more (language: Dutch).

Photos of the felted piece laid out on the ground (top). Combined with photos taken in Blönduós during the residency (bottom).

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Textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. I work with textiles and other material forms as a way of thinking and researching. I thereby treat these materials as tools to expose and unsettle taken-for-granted views and naturalized routines of daily life.

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