Craftswoman
Weaving on a Jacquard loom TC2; cotton, viscosa
The viewer is invited to decipher the words and phrases written on the canvas.
This is a kind of code created by the artist to communicate with like-minded people.
The words ‘shitьё’ and the phrase ‘ongoing labour of a broken heart’ turn into a textile pattern, on top of which other words are written in the artist's handwriting: ‘craftswoman’, ‘needlewoman’, ‘golden hands’ and other words that are often heard in the address of a Kraft person, plunging for the interlocutor into the marginalised zone of women's manual labour. The jacquard cloth is mounted on a crossbar, the plugs for which are 3d copies of the artist's fingers.
The viewer is invited to decipher the words and phrases written on the canvas.
This is a kind of code created by the artist to communicate with like-minded people.
The words ‘shitьё’ and the phrase ‘ongoing labour of a broken heart’ turn into a textile pattern, on top of which other words are written in the artist's handwriting: ‘craftswoman’, ‘needlewoman’, ‘golden hands’ and other words that are often heard in the address of a Kraft person, plunging for the interlocutor into the marginalised zone of women's manual labour. The jacquard cloth is mounted on a crossbar, the plugs for which are 3d copies of the artist's fingers.
The piece was produced within the "ColLab" program of the
Center for Art Production "Vaults" of the House of Culture "GES-2", Moscow
Photo Anya Todich, Evgenii Vtorov, Irina Konstantinova
2023