Art/Life Blog
It is a work made of crocheted ball chain. Ball chain is a versatile material and crocheting with it created an unusual result. I knitted a closed tubular shape opening up into a flower like shape. The piece can be displayed in various configurations, and can be manipulated.
The work is hermaphrodite, by that I mean that it has both a phallus like shape, the tubular shape mentioned above, and an opening like flower shape mimicking a vulva.
The crocheting refers to traditional domestic feminine activities, but here a non-traditional material is used, one that is found in a hardware store. The viewer is encouraged to manipulate the work, to be able to feel its weight and form it into various shapes.
This piece had never been exhibited in a gallery setting, until November 2023, when it was presented at Produit Rien in the exhibition In the Flesh / En chair et en os.