PHOTO-BASED textiles 2020 - ongoing

ACTS OF RESILIANCE

This series begins with digitally generated Jacquard blankets woven from photographic images of the female body, subsequently transformed through acts of hand intervention, stitched, cut, and layered, as gestures of disruption and resistance in response to the contemporary socio-political climate. Drawing on forms of domestic practices of mending and repair, these interventions unsettle and defy the authority of the mechanically produced image.

Linking the Jacquard loom as an early programmable system to digital photography, where images are encoded as data and constructed through pixels, the work situates the body within a continuum of technological control. Against this coded order, the hand operates as an embodied counterpoint: unraveling, stitching, and layering, it reintroduces touch, contingency and care, destabilizing the fixed surface of the image.

Through these durational processes, the blankets shift into a slower, more corporeal register. In a moment shaped by acceleration, instability, and disembodiment, the intimacy of handwork becomes a quiet form of resistance, transforming the blankets into charged spaces of protection, reflection, and emotional resonance. Moving between code, textile, and gesture, the series sustains a dialogue between machine and body, control and reclamation, fragility and resilience.