Grosse Regionale

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Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil

23.11.2025-01.02.2026

Whispers, Chirping

Handwoven fabric remnants, artificial nails, artificial pennants, dimensions variable, 2025

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These works emerge from three image sources: a pigeon used by miners to sense invisible mine gas, the hybrid being Hagrin from Deniz Gezgin’s novel Yerkuşağı, and women carrying heavy loads while working in the fields along the Black Sea.

Initially appearing as fantastical bird-like figures in drawings, these images later transformed into handwoven works made from donated fabrics and clothing. Their connection lies in their bodily responses to vulnerability and to the sensing of an approaching catastrophe — not through language, but through movement, endurance, and transformation.

The pigeon signals danger through its agitated body; Hagrin mediates between life and death through care and consumption; the women walk long distances to ensure survival. Freed from hierarchical and human-centered attributions, these figures are placed side by side as social and fragile beings who carry responsibility for others.

Through cutting, knotting, and weaving fabrics that once belonged to different bodies, the works propose new, intertwined narratives — allowing these beings to coexist lightly and temporarily, without being fixed to a single identity or representation.