Kask & Conservatorium, Graduation

Karin De Vos
Weaving bags, binding texts

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Josse Pyl
Julie Héneault
Angelique Campens
Clara Pasteau

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“Femmage: a word invented by us to include all the above activities as they were practiced by women using traditional women’s techniques to achieve their art—sewing, piecing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing, cooking and the like—activities also engaged in by men but assigned in history to women.” (Definition by Melissa Meyer and Miriam Schapiro, first published in Heresies)

Everything I interact with stems from a web of footnotes, annotations, gossip and dialogue dripping through the margins of pages, onto the garments for books.

How do you orientate yourself towards matter that finds itself outside of the centralized space of a book?

The dust jackets materialize past encounters and gatherings to come—causing ripples around the surface of the conventional way of understanding matter. They can be seen as carriers or vessels: objects for holding and contaminating something precious. ‘Weaving bags, binding texts’ visualize alternative networks of knowledge that overflow the rigid space of a book. These structures attempt to publicize (and publish) the labour—reproductive and marginalized—that goes unseen.

Karin De Vos Weaving bags, binding texts

Karin De Vos
Weaving bags, binding texts