Through the Wringer (Woven)
During Lockdown between August and October 2020, I conducted nine interviews with women working in healthcare, or within the care sector. I asked them about their experiences at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, their thoughts about care and caring in this time of social distancing, and their shifting perceptions of hygiene, washing, and the 'care burden'.
For Woven Network, I transcribed portions of these conversations onto fabric which I then washed, wrung out and hung to dry (repeatedly) — each cloth functioning as an inadequate palimpsest of our conversation and this complex time.
I offer these works as inherently insufficient, honorific gestures – vestiges of an embodied meditation on the work these women continue to do, and in consideration of our collective increased burden of care.
For Woven Network, I transcribed portions of these conversations onto fabric which I then washed, wrung out and hung to dry (repeatedly) — each cloth functioning as an inadequate palimpsest of our conversation and this complex time.
I offer these works as inherently insufficient, honorific gestures – vestiges of an embodied meditation on the work these women continue to do, and in consideration of our collective increased burden of care.
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Artist: t s Beall
We express our gratitude to European Union and House of Europe programme.
2020 - 2022