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that which you wove out of light stuff i wear in honor of stone* (2022)
unprocessed cotton wool bale, ceramic tiles
This piece merges a site specific intervention (tile ‘mosaic’) with a found sculptural object (cotton bundle, stored in the Bremen Hafen Museum and then moved into a dumpster). My interest in this gesture began when encountering two large mosaics in the city of Bremen– the tryptich ‘Tabakhandel’ in Hauptbahnhof as well as the entry of the Baumwollbörse (Cotton Exchange building). Both of these imageries act as a covering up, a way of mythologizing the exchange/trade of colonial goods as good vis-a-vis embedding those representats into architecture around the city. The visuals in the mosaics construct narratives which act as erasures of violent accumilations of wealth.
*the title of this work is an excerpt from Paul Celan’s epitaphic poem Death Shroud.
Documentation Images by Joya Bahkyi
unprocessed cotton wool bale, ceramic tiles
This piece merges a site specific intervention (tile ‘mosaic’) with a found sculptural object (cotton bundle, stored in the Bremen Hafen Museum and then moved into a dumpster). My interest in this gesture began when encountering two large mosaics in the city of Bremen– the tryptich ‘Tabakhandel’ in Hauptbahnhof as well as the entry of the Baumwollbörse (Cotton Exchange building). Both of these imageries act as a covering up, a way of mythologizing the exchange/trade of colonial goods as good vis-a-vis embedding those representats into architecture around the city. The visuals in the mosaics construct narratives which act as erasures of violent accumilations of wealth.
*the title of this work is an excerpt from Paul Celan’s epitaphic poem Death Shroud.
Documentation Images by Joya Bahkyi
