metakínisi 6

embroidery
32 x 21 cm
2020

Is it possible to embroider one’s experience of a walk? During the Covid-19 lockdowns in Greece, it was obligatory to send a text message to an official number upon leaving the house. The message had to state one’s name and a number, standing for one the six allowed types of metakínisi, meaning commute or movement.

Texting my name and the number 6 allowed me to go on a walk of max. two hours around my neighbourhood, as a form of phyisical exercise. During these daily walks, I took photos of things that caught my eye; a napkin on the ground, a beautiful door, graffiti on corrugated sheet metal... Back at home, I translated these observations into embroideries. The base is cotton that I dyed with household products.

Photos of the metakínisi 6 series.

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I am a textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. Through my work runs a tangible thread that is spun from questions about materials, hierarchies, traditions, patterns, shapes, and their relations. By means of artistic research, I aim to unravel them and investigate their potential to be interlaced in new ways.

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