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Surrender (2023)
When I opened the box, I found my grandmother’s dress. Most of her clothes had been taken by my mother to the rubbish tip after she died. She couldn’t bear to see anyone wearing them if she had taken them to the charity shop. I have a memory that there were just two that she kept, and this is one of those two.
I am always playing with it as an item. It feels to me like some visual connection to a maternal body, something that connects us through thread.
I wear it, I stitch in it, I wash it and wrestle with it.
Filmed on the roof at Galatina, Italy, during Domus Artist Residency, Winter 2023. I had to leave my archive to hold it.