The Bone in My Throat

Waschhaus, Thalwil

2024
Embroidery on fabric, aluminium wire, electric motors.

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The Bone in My Throat
This sentence is the expression for laundry used by a female character in Roberta Cantow's movie 'Clotheslines'(1981). Film, which explores the social and communal aspects of laundry through poetic sounds and images, became the starting point for my project.

Laundry, which was a social activity and labor till the invention of household machines, was then restricted to the domestic space.
I made a relation between women's invisible labor and lost sock pairs. I wanted to recall the women who worked in the laundry. The characters I created with women's socks and embroidery came back as stronger bodies and recreated their own spaces.

Photos: Serap Vitarelli
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