from odds and ends is an installation first presented in 2021. It is composed of a handtufted rug, a series of eleven embroidered and cyanotype-printed pillows, and an audiopiece.
Built from odds and ends, this project explores the relationship between useful labour and futile creativity. Or maybe the other way around.
Drawing from revolutionary thoughts and values from the Paris Commune, this installation questions the relation between work, arts, and crafts. It aims to create a space that supports the materialization of collective agency through a temporary practice of laziness, in opposition to individual ambition and injunctions to productivity.
Following in the footsteps of exiled Communards, you are invited to meander along the sunny shores of Lake Geneva, through 150 years of workers’ daily lives, solidarity gatherings, communal imaginary, and ineffective artworks.
