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Louise Cremers makes textile works that balance ambiguously between evoking vulnerable bodies and protective enclosures, underlining the fluid boundaries between inside and outside. Her work reflects on vulnerability and emphasizes the importance of softness and care.
Between bodies and enclosures for bodies
“Paincoats & Mantelzorgers” presents an ensemble of textile works that reflect on vulnerability (of humans, other species, the earth) and emphasize the importance of care. They emerge from the experience of inhabiting a body that is simultaneously caring and in need of care.
Questions can be raised about the embodied experience of pain or discomfort – what is often (expected to be) kept hidden? – and about the act of caring – who takes care of whom in the system we live in?
The works balance ambiguously between evoking messy, lumpy, vulnerable bodies and absorbing, clumsy, protective enclosures. They are made up of felted locally collected wool, woolen cords, various yarn and other materials. Working with organic material implies thinking about cycles of life and death, underlining temporality and fluidity.
Sprouting from an interest in ecology and from wanting to interact with the more-than-human world, different natural dyes were explored to add color to the wool. The use of found and scrap materials can be seen as an act of gleaning, reusing residues of capitalist production.
