Dear Art, please save the world. It’s urgent

Weaving on a Jacquard loom TC2; cotton, viscosa
107 x 112 сm

The project started from a textual weaving method: formal interactions with

printed text turned out as a personal code, alternative poetry on the margins.

These texts that are important for the artist — feminist to start with — can be

imagined as a pattern for everyday clothes.

The second method — Kristina writes found phrases by hand, like old cross-

writing to save paper or mantras to be repeated over and over again to

memorize something or for better understanding. Now she is working with

handwriting a lot as a new approach towards weaving the structures. A lot of

artists and poets did something similar, like visual poetry, but for Kristina it is

important that it is handwriting and it creates structures reminding textiles. We

don't do handwriting often now, some kids in school even don't have to write by

hand anymore and etc. For Kristina handwriting is something connected with her

childhood memories, diary practices, but also with margins, when you read a

book and highlight smth important for you. The viewer is encouraged to read the

phrases, but if there is no time for it, the title of the work to help.

The piece was produced within the "ColLab" program of the

Center for Art Production "Vaults" of the House of Culture "GES-2", Moscow