sculpture
280 × 50 × 15 cm
textile, string, threads, textile hardener, pigment, clay, plastic nails

Documentation from the exhibition 'Identity Paradox' in Improper Walls, Vienna. © Miloš Vučićević

Is a performative textile sculpture that was woven out of the stories gathered and shared during the residency in Užice.

It is often tote bags and various textile objects that so many grassroot NPOs produce to support their organization’s activities. Especially the ones dealing with violence against women. Ursula Le Guin has written that the carrier bag is highly likely the first object we have always needed since the beginning of anthropocentric times. An alternative reading on evolution where instead of the violent spear to catch and kill something, what is needed first, is something to hold things in and to be held with. Stories as carrier bags of identities, human bodies as vessels for each other's pain, hands and ears that give you a bag to carry something that is too much to be kept inside.

Produced in the context of Improper Walls project 'Identity Paradox' that took place in Užice, Serbia

More information on the whole exhibition can be found here

TEXT FROM THE SCULPTURE

thousand different stories
explosion of timelines
painful and contradicting
like sharp meteorite spears

everyone disagrees
everyone becomes apart

history was a his story about the wars
theirs story is like a Cinderella
you could hide them but they exist