Over the course of five weeks I slowly inhabited the gallery to compose an installation in situ. The process was incremental, visceral, meandering. I imagined a continuous line that moved between a drawing, a stain, a hand-stitched leg, a pile of lichen, a gesture... It is a proposal that eschews hierarchy in favour of coexistence: each part intrinsic to the overall ensemble. There are glimmers of a narrative arc but not a definitive story. I was interested in the interstices between what is abstract, figurative, or perceived experientially. I wanted the objects/the scenario to evoke a sense of performativity/embodiment without there being an actual performance. This piece explores ways of echoing what one is living, on a cellular level. I was curious whether the acts of drawing, stitching, and collecting could be regenerative, reparative. A key element is a series of bundles. Sewn from towels, blankets, and clothing, they refer to taking care of the body (to bathe, wipe, rest, sleep, warm, cover, cure...) yet also resemble fictional internal organs. This body of work is concerned with ideas around the everyday and the sacred; growth and decay; amassing and releasing; improvisation and embodiment. It continues from work developed during a residency at NAIRS, a former sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.

Photographers: Guy L'Heureux, Vida Simon

Mixed media